Oswaldella rigida Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

(Fig. 16 f–j)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-27, few stems, up to 55 mm high; 48-72, few stems, up to 50 mm high; 48-168, few stems, up to 60 mm high; 48-189, few stems, up to 55 mm high; 48-276, few stems, up to 20 mm high; ANT

XXI /2: PS65/148, few stems, up to 75 mm high; PS65/237, few stems, up to 30 mm high; PS65/278, few stems, up to 70 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 80 (Peña Cantero et al. 1997a) and 1157 m (Peña Cantero 2014a); present material was collected at depths between 119 and 417 m. Circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero et al. 1997a).