Oswaldella tottoni Pena Cantero & Vervoort 1996 ...

• Main Authors: Cantero, A. L. Peña, Molinero, A. González
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella tottoni; Antarctic; Molinero; Pena; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5960855; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5960855

Oswaldella tottoni Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1996 (Fig. 6) Oswaldella tottoni Peña CanTerO & VerVOOrT, 1996: 139–142, fig. 2; 1998: 37; 2004: 850; Peña CanTerO et al., 1997: 380–383, fig. 12; Peña CanTerO & García CarrascOsa, 1998: 179; 1999: 214; Peña CanTerO & Marques, 1999: 85; GOnzález MOlinerO & Peña CanTerO, 2015: 439; Peña CanTerO, 2017: 60. Oswaldella bifurca —TOTTOn, 1930: 208–209, fig. 50. Material examined. German Antarctic expedition Polarstern ANT XV/3, Stn 48-194, 16 February 1998, 71°14.1’S, 12°27.7’W (Kape Norvegia), 244–246 m, a few stems, up to 120 mm high, with gonothecae. Description. Polysiphonic, branched stems up to 120 mm high. Stems not divided into internodes, with two longitudinal series of cauline apophyses. Angle between cauline apophyses and stem ca. 45°. Cauline apophyses with two axillary nematophores, each emerging through a simple hole in perisarc (Fig. 6B); no ‘mamelons’ present. Hydrocladia bifurcated (Fig. 6A), only hydrocladia of second order present. ... : Published as part of Cantero, A. L. Peña & Molinero, A. González, 2018, On several species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), including the description of a new species, pp. 397-414 in Zootaxa 4457 (3) on page 407, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1457897 ...