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Staurotheca compressa Briggs 1938

Description

Staurotheca compressa Briggs, 1938 (*)

Staurotheca compressa Briggs, 1938: 27 –29, fig. 1a–c, pl. 15 fig. 2; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2003: 2673 –2676, fig. 4 (synonymy).

Remarks. Briggs (1938) reported the species from Commonwealth Bay, at depths between 45 and 108 m. Circum- Antarctic distribution (Stepanjants 1979).

Notes

Published as part of Peña Cantero, Álvaro L. & Marzal, Marina Fresneda, 2018, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off George V Coast (East Antarctica), pp. 121-136 in Zootaxa 4441 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1301927

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sertulariidae
Genus
Staurotheca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Briggs
Species
compressa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Staurotheca compressa Briggs, 1938 sec. Cantero & Marzal, 2018

References

  • Briggs, E. A. (1938) Hydroida. Scientific Reports Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 - 1914, Series C, 9 (4), 1 - 46, pls. 15 - 16.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, w. (2003) Species of Staurotheca Allman, 1888 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Sertulariidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species. Journal of Natural History, 37, 2653 - 2722. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930210155701
  • Stepanjants, S. D. (1979) Hydroids of the antarctic and subantarctic waters. In: Biological results of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 6. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei, 20 (30), 1 - 200, pls. 1 - 25. [in Russian]