Oswaldella curiosa Pena Cantero and Vervoort 1998

• Main Authors: Peña Cantero, A. L., Vervoort, W.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella curiosa; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Bransfield Strait; Pena; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4654023; https://zenodo.org/record/4654023

Oswaldella curiosa Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998 Oswaldella curiosa Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998: 35–39, figure 2; Peña Cantero and García Carrascosa, 1999: 214; Peña Cantero and Marques, 1999: 85. Material examined . 6/428 , three stems up to 35 mm high. Remarks . The material of this species was previously described and figured by Peña Cantero and Vervoort (1998). Oswaldella curiosa is well characterized, especially by the shape of the hydrotheca, since it is the only known species of the genus with a completely abcaudally directed hydrothecal aperture. It is also characterized by the absence of mesial inferior nematothecae in the hydrocladial internodes, the absence of a node between cauline apophyses and hydrocladia, and by the presence of a single axillary nematophore in the cauline apophyses (cf. table 1). Ecology and distribution . Oswaldella curiosa is known only from the Bransfield Strait area, where it was collected at depths between 662 and 1120 m in January (Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998). : Published as part of Peña 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, pp. 805-861 in Journal of Natural History 38 on pages 822-823 : {"references": ["PEN \u0360 A CANTERO, A. L. and VERVOORT, W., 1998, On two new species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Bransfield Strait (Antarctica), Polar Biology, 20, 33 - 40.", "PEN \u0360 A CANTERO, A. L. and GARCIA CARRASCOSA, A. M., 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 (Suppl. 1), 209 - 218.", "PEN \u0360 A CANTERO, A. L. and MARQUES, A. C., 1999, Phylogenetic analysis of the Antarctic genus Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae, Kirchenpaueriidae), Contributions to Zoology, 68, 83 - 93."]}