Staurotheca polarsterni Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997
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Description
Staurotheca polarsterni Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997
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Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-63, one colony, c. 40 mm high; 48-70, one colony, c. 90 mm high; 48-72, several stems, c. 130 mm high; 48-77, one colony, c. 40 mm high; 48-82, one colony, c. 75 mm high, on stone; 48- 97, numerous stems, up to 110 mm high; 48-150, numerous stems, up to 120 mm high, on gravel, with male gonothecae; 48-154, numerous stems, up to 140 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-197, numerous stems, up to 100 mm high; ANT XXI/2: PS65/248, several stems, up to 80 mm high; PS65/253, one colony, c. 75 mm high; PS65/265, one colony, c. 130 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/274, one colony, c. 85 mm high.
Ecology and distribution. Previously collected at depths between 181 and 1030 m (Peña Cantero et al. 1997b); present material from 230 to 758 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 1997b).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sertulariidae
- Genus
- Staurotheca
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort
- Species
- polarsterni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Staurotheca polarsterni Cantero, 1997 sec. Soto & Peña, 2019
References
- Svoboda, A., Stepanjants, S. & Smirnov, I. (1997) Two polar Hydractinia species (Cnidaria), epibiotic on two closely related brittle stars (Echinodermata): an example for taxonomic and ecological bipolarity. In: Battaglia, B., Valencia, J. & Walton, D. W. H. (Eds.), Antarctic Communities: Species, Structure and Survival. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 22 - 25
- Pena Cantero, A. L., Svoboda, A. & Vervoort, W. (1997 b) Species of Staurotheca Allman, 1888 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from recent Antarctic expeditions with R. V. ' Polarstern', with the description of six new species. Journal of Natural History, 31, 329 - 381. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939700770171