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Oswaldella rigida Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997

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Oswaldella rigida Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

Oswaldella rigida Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997: 373 –376, figs 10, 15C; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1998: 36; 2004: 845; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1999: 214; Peña Cantero & Marques, 1999: 85; Peña Cantero, 2014: 1721, fig. 4e, f.

Schizotricha antarctica — Vanhöffen, 1910: 336, fig. 48.

Ecology. Shelf and slope species, found at depths between 80 (Peña Cantero et al. 1997) and 1157 m (Peña Cantero 2014), on muddy and rocky bottoms (Peña Cantero et al. 1997). Gonothecae: January (Peña Cantero 2014).

Distribution. Circum-Antarctic (Peña Cantero et al. 1997). East Antarctica: the Davis Sea (Vanhoffen 1910) and off Queen Mary Coast (Peña Cantero 2014). West Antarctica: the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al. 1997).

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 pages 437-438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245887

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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
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W. (1998) On two new species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Bransfield Strait (Antarctica). Polar Biology, 20, 33 - 40. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 003000050273
  • 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.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. (2014) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the continental shelf and slope off Queen Mary Coast (East Antarctica). Polar Biology, 37, 1711 - 1731. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 014 - 1556 - 0
  • Vanhoffen, E. (1910) Die Hydroiden der Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903. Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, 11 (Zoology 3), 269 - 340.