Staurotheca polarsterni Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997 ...

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Staurotheca; Staurotheca polarsterni; Antarctic; Pena; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934946; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5934946

Staurotheca polarsterni Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997 (Fig. 9k) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-63, one colony, c. 40 mm high; 48-70, one colony, c. 90 mm high; 48-72, several stems, c. 130 mm high; 48-77, one colony, c. 40 mm high; 48-82, one colony, c. 75 mm high, on stone; 48- 97, numerous stems, up to 110 mm high; 48-150, numerous stems, up to 120 mm high, on gravel, with male gonothecae; 48-154, numerous stems, up to 140 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-197, numerous stems, up to 100 mm high; ANT XXI/2: PS65/248, several stems, up to 80 mm high; PS65/253, one colony, c. 75 mm high; PS65/265, one colony, c. 130 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/274, one colony, c. 85 mm high. Ecology and distribution. Previously collected at depths between 181 and 1030 m (Peña Cantero et al. 1997b); present material from 230 to 758 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 1997b). ... : Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527 ...