Staurotheca compressa Briggs 1938 ...

• Main Author: ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Staurotheca; Staurotheca compressa; Antarctic; Ross Sea; New Zealand; Briggs; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4386811; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.4386811

Staurotheca compressa Briggs, 1938 (Fig. 10 A) Staurotheca compressa — Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2003: 2673 –2676, fig. 4 (synonymy); Peña Cantero, 2006: 940, fig. 4A; 2008: 459; 2009: 1749; 2013: 131; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2009: 87; Soto Àngel & Peña Cantero, 2015: 997, fig. 8b–c. Material examined. Stn 25, mass of stems, ca. 20 mm in diameter (NIWA 117518); Stn 178, mass of stems, ca. 80 mm high and 70 mm wide, with gonothecae, basibiont of Halecium tangaroa sp. nov. and Hebella plana (NIWA 117519); Stn 197, mass of stems, ca. 100 mm in diameter, with female gonothecae (MNCN 2.03/551). Remarks. This is a species easily distinguishable by the hydrothecal aperture, which is laterally depressed, forming both an adcauline and an abcauline cusp (Fig. 10 A). Ecology and distribution. Reviewed by Peña Cantero & Vervoort (2003) and Peña Cantero (2006). Eurybathic species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003), collected at depths between 45 (Briggs 1938) and 1042 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003); ... : Published as part of ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO, 2017, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica) collected by the New Zealand Antarctic expedition BioRoss 2004 with RV Tangaroa, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 4293 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4293.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/828475 ...