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Schizotricha nana Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1996

Description

Schizotricha nana Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1996

(Fig. 15 d–f)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-50, several stems, up to 270 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae; 48-194, several stems, up to 160 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae; 48-220, several stems, up to 210 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae; 48-222, few stems, up to 100 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48-223, several stems, up to 130 mm high, with gonothecae; 48-276, several stems, up to 320 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XVII/3: 111-9, few stems, up to 125 mm high, with gonothecae; 111-18, few stems, up to 90 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XXI/2: PS65/39, several stems, up to 200 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/ 121, several stems, up to 280 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/237, few stems, up to 140 mm high, on gravel, with gonothecae; PS65/280, few stems, up to 80 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/281, few stems, up to 85 mm high; PS65/336, few stems, up to 90 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 43 (Stepanjants 1972, as Schizotricha turqueti)

and 1890 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2005); present material from 62 to 417 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 1996).

Notes

Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527

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References

  • Pena Cantero, A. L., Svoboda, A. & Vervoort, W. (1996) Species of Schizotricha Allman, 1883 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from recent antarctic expeditions with R. V. '' Polarstern' ', with the description of a new species. Zoologische Mededelingen, 70, 411 - 435.
  • Stepanjants, S. D. (1972) Hydroidea of the coastal waters of the Davis Sea (collected by the XIth Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1965 - 1966). In: Biological results of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 5. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei, 11, 56 - 79. [in Russian]
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W. (2005) Species of Schizotricha Allman, 1883 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Halopterididae) from US Antarctic expeditions with the description of two new species. Journal of Natural History, 39, 795 - 818. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930400001541