Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants 1979

• Main Authors: Galea, Horia R., Schories, Dirk
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella shetlandica; King George Island; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4630854; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630854

Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 (Fig. 3 A–C) Oswaldella shetlandica — Peña Cantero, García Carrascosa & Vervoort, 1995: 342, fig. 1. Material examined. Stn. ARD — 14.ii. 2010, Ant.05/ 2010 (25 m): a bunch of sterile stems, ca. 15 cm high; Ant. 33 / 2011 (25 m): a profuse colony with stems up to 19 cm high, some bearing male gonothecae (MHNG-INVE- 79795). Stn. RAS — 24.i. 2011, Ant. 25 / 2011 (30 m): a single, badly preserved, sterile stem, ca. 4 cm high; Ant. 28 / 2011 (30 m): a single, sterile cormoid, ca. 6.5 cm high; 02.ii. 2011, Ant. 26 / 2011 (40 m): fragmentary colony, coming as three broken parts totaling ca. 6 cm high; 11.ii. 2010, Ant.01/ 2010 (30 m): colony composed of a bunch of stems, up to 12 cm high, with numerous male gonothecae (MHNG-INVE- 79794). Remarks. For a description of this species and synonymy, see Peña Cantero, García Carrascosa & Vervoort (1995). Geographical distribution. Possibly endemic to West Antarctica (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Published as part of Galea, Horia R. & Schories, Dirk, 2012, Some hydrozoans (Cnidaria) from King George Island, Antarctica, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3321 on page 13, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.213236