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Oswaldella billardi Briggs 1938

Description

Oswaldella billardi Briggs, 1938

Oswaldella billardi Briggs, 1938: 40, fig. 3, pl. 15 fig. 1; Naumov & Stepanjants, 1962: 98 –99; 1972: 53–54, fig. 14c; Stepanjants, 1972: 74; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997: 269–273, fig. 1; 1998: 36; 2004: 818–820, fig. 2; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1999: 214; Peña Cantero & Marques, 1999: 85.

Oswaldella billardi billardi Stepanjants, 1979: 113, pl. 21 fig. 3a, b.

Not Oswaldella billardi — Blanco, 1984: 45–46, pl. 41 fig. 95, pl. 42 figs 96–97 (= Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 p.p.; Oswaldella erratum Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997 p.p.); Blanco & De Redolatti, 1977: 1–8, pls 1–4 (= Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979); Broch, 1948: 13–16, fig. 4b; Peña Cantero et al., 1997: 349–353, figs 2, 13b (= Oswaldella erratum Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997).

Not Oswaldella billardi shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 (= Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 p.p.; Oswaldella erratum Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997 p.p.).

Ecology. Shelf species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 1997), found at depths from 7 (Stepanjants 1972) to 412 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004), on bottoms of small rocks with red algae (Briggs 1938), sand and boulders (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) and rocks, pebbles, sand and mud (Stepanjants 1979). Gonothecae: January (Briggs 1938; Stepanjants 1979), November (Stepanjants 1979) and December (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004, immature).

Distribution. Circum-Antarctic (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). East Antarctica: Davis Sea (Briggs 1938; Stepanjants 1972), off Queen Mary Coast and Enderby Land (Naumov & Stepanjants 1962), off Adélie Coast (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) and north of Wilkes Station, Budd Coast, Wilkes Land (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). West Antarctica: off McDonald Ice Rumples, east coast of the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004).

Notes

Published as part of Molinero, A. González & Peña Cantero, A. L., 2015, SEM study of species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Kirchenpaueriidae), with an annotated checklist of the species of the genus, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4052 (4) on page 433, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245887

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Kirchenpaueriidae
Genus
Oswaldella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Briggs
Species
billardi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Oswaldella billardi Briggs, 1938 sec. Molinero & Cantero, 2015

References

  • Briggs, E. A. (1938) Hydroida. Scientific Report of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 - 1914, Series C, 9 (4), 1 - 46, pls. 15 - 16.
  • Naumov, D. V. & Stepanjants, S. D. (1962) Hydroida (Thecaphora) collected by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on the M / V ' Ob' in antarctic and subantarctic waters. Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1955 - 1958, 1, Issledovaniya Fauny Morei, 1 (9), 68 - 106.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Garcia Carrascosa, A. (1999) Biogeographical distribution of the benthic thecate hydroids collected during the Spanish ' Antartida 8611 ' expedition and comparison between Antarctic and Magellan benthic hydroid faunas. Scientia Marina, 63 (Supplement), 209 - 218.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Marques, A. C. (1999) Phylogenetic analysis of the Antarctic genus Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae, Kirchenpaueriidae). Contributions to Zoology, 68, 83 - 93.
  • Stepanjants, S. D. (1979) Hydroids of the antarctic and subantarctic waters. In: Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions, 6. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei, 20 (30), pp. 1 - 200, pls. 1 - 25. [in Russian]
  • Blanco, O. M. (1984) Contribucion al conocimiento de hidrozoos antarticos y subantarticos. Contribuciones del Instituto antartico argentino, 294, 1 - 53, pls. 1 - 47.
  • Blanco, O. M. & De Redolatti, L. I. L. (1977) Gonangios en Oswaldella billardi Briggs. Contribuciones del Instituto antartico argentino, 207, 1 - 8, pls. 1 - 4.
  • Broch, H. (1948) Antarctic hydroids. Scientific Results of the Norwegian Antartic Expeditions 1927 - 1928, et sqq., 28, 1 - 23.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W. (2004) Species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Kirchenpaueriidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species. Journal of Natural History, 38, 805 - 861. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 0022293021000045154
  • Naumov, D. V. & Stepanjants, S. D. (1972) Marine invertebrates from Adelie Land collected by the XIIth and XVth French Antarctic Expeditions. 3. Hydroida. Tethys Supplement, 4, 25 - 60.