Staurotheca antarctica Hartlaub 1904 ...

• Main Authors: Peña Cantero, Álvaro L., Marzal, Marina Fresneda
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Staurotheca; Staurotheca antarctica; East Antarctica; George V Coast; Briggs; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5978791; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5978791

Staurotheca antarctica Hartlaub 1904 (Fig. 3A) ? Staurotheca antarctica — Briggs, 1938: 26. Staurotheca antarctica— Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2003: 2670 –2673, fig. 3 (synonymy). Material examined. 29EV59 , a colony 40 mm in diameter, with female gonothecae (IK–2009–0333). Description. Compact colony 40 mm in diameter, consisting of a mass of stems and branches. Branching frequent and irregular. Branches numerous and provided with anastomoses. Hydrothecae arranged in decussate pairs, forming four longitudinal rows. Hydrotheca (Fig. 3A) small, little immersed into branch. Adcauline hydrothecal wall adnate for about half its length, free adcauline wall curved outwards. Hydrothecal aperture circular; rim with renovations. Female gonothecae on bifid and digitiform process arising from hydrothecal base. Gonotheca globular, ornamented with digitiform projections. Remarks. The record by Briggs (1938) was considered doubtful by Peña Cantero et al. (1997) because he gave neither description nor measurements, being ... : Published as part of Peña Cantero, Álvaro L. & Marzal, Marina Fresneda, 2018, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off George V Coast (East Antarctica), pp. 121-136 in Zootaxa 4441 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1301927 ...