Oswaldella terranovae Pena Cantero and Vervoort 1996

• Main Authors: Peña Cantero, A. L., Vervoort, W.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella terranovae; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ross Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4654033; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038687FCFFBAA77C39A60508FD21728F

Oswaldella terranovae Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1996 Oswaldella terranovae Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1996: 136–138, figure 1; Peña Cantero et al ., 1997: 344; Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998: 37; Peña Cantero and García Carrascosa, 1999: 214; Peña Cantero and Marques, 1999: 85. Oswaldella antarctica : Totton, 1930: 209–210, figure 51. Remarks . Oswaldella terranovae is characterized by the branched stems, the presence of a much reduced mesial inferior nematotheca in the hydrocladial internodes, the shape of the hydrotheca, and the presence of two axillary nematophores and two ‘mamelons’ on the cauline apophyses (cf. table 1). Ecology and distribution . Oswaldella terranovae is known only from off Cape Adare, Ross Sea, where it was found at depths of 82–92 m, on a bottom of pebbles (Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1996). Published as part of Peña Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W., 2004, Species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Kirchenpaueriidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species, pp. 805-861 in Journal of Natural History 38 on page 850