Staurotheca densa Pena Cantero & Vervoort 2003

• Main Author: ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Staurotheca; Staurotheca densa; Pena; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4386816; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C84B87CACC0AFFABE8DD043B0FF4F737

Staurotheca densa Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2003 (Fig. 10 B) Staurotheca densa Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2003: 2678 –2680, fig. 6 (synonymy); Peña Cantero, 2008: 459; 2009: 1749. Material examined. Stn 24, fragment 7 mm long, in bad condition (NIWA 117520); Stn 25, four colonies up to 40 mm in diameter, with female gonothecae, basibiont of Rhizorhagium antarcticum (MNCN 2.03/552); Stn 48, two fragments, 20 and 14 mm long (NIWA 117521); Stn 52, fragment 20 mm long (NIWA 117522); Stn 53, one stem 55 mm high basibiont of Rhizorhagium antarcticum , and one fragment 18 mm long basibiont of Hebella plana (MNCN 2.03/553); Stn 63, mass of branches, ca. 60 mm long, with female gonothecae (NIWA 117523); Stn 67, three palmate colonies up to 160 mm high, mass of stems ca. 30 mm in diameter, and four fragments up to 42 mm long (MNCN 2.03/554); Stn 96, colony 85 mm long (NIWA 117524); Stn 123, colony fragment 70 mm long (MNCN 2.03/555); Stn 125, several fragments up to 28 mm long (NIWA 117525); Stn 126, six colonies up to 200 mm high and 130 mm wide, with male and female gonothecae, basibiont of Hebella plana , Lafoea dumosa , Symplectoscyphus anae Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002, and Symplectoscyphus sp. (NIWA 117526); Stn 129, one fragment 6 mm long (NIWA 117527); Stn 130, 16 colonies up to 200 mm high and 120 mm wide, with male and female gonothecae, basibiont of Abietinella operculata , Antarctoscyphus spiralis , Billardia subrufa , Campanularia hicksoni , Halecium tangaroa sp. nov. , Lafoea dumosa , Symplectoscyphus sp., and Rhizorhagium antarcticum (NIWA 117528); Stn 132, at least two colonies up to 190 mm high, with male and female gonothecae, basibiont of Halecium sp. and Sympletoscyphus sp. (MNCN 2.03/556); Stn 197, mass of stems ca. 70 mm in diameter, with female gonothecae (MNCN 2.03/557); Stn 198, two fragments up to 20 mm long (NIWA 117529). Measurements (in µm). Hydrotheca : abcauline wall 680–730, free part of adcauline wall 260–360, adnate part of adcauline wall 500–590, adcauline wall ...