Oswaldella incognita Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997
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Description
Oswaldella incognita Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997
(Figs 8, 16 H, 17H, 19H)
Material examined. New Zealand Antarctic Expedition TAN0402: Stn 241, Tangaroa, 4 March 2004, 66°54'77''– 66°55'01''S, 163°13'65''– 163°13'69''E (off Buckle Island, Balleny Islands), 70– 78 m.
Description. Monosiphonic, unbranched stems, up to 130 mm high, divided into internodes. Angle between cauline apophyses and stem ca. 45°. Cauline apophyses with two axillary nematophores, each emerging through simple perisarc hole (Fig. 8 B–C).
Hydrocladia bifurcated (Fig. 8 A). First hydrocladial internode with two similar prongs (Fig. 8 A). Mesial inferior nematophore emerging from strongly marked swelling at proximal third of internode (Fig. 8 D–E); with large, claw-shaped nematoteca (Fig. 8 D–F). Hydrotheca elongate, situated on middle or distal half of internode (Fig. 8 D–E). Abcauline wall straight or slightly convex (Fig. 8 D). Hydrothecal aperture circular, roughly perpendicular to long axis of internode (Fig. 8 A, D).
Gonothecae fusiform, with subterminal aperture.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Kirchenpaueriidae
- Genus
- Oswaldella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort
- Species
- incognita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oswaldella incognita Cantero, 1997 sec. Molinero & Cantero, 2015
References
- Pena Cantero, A. L., Svoboda, A. & Vervoort, W. (1997) Species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from recent antarctic expeditions with R. V. ' Polarstern', with the description of eight new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119, 339 - 388. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1997. tb 00140. x