Staurotheca frigida Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Staurotheca; Staurotheca frigida; Antarctic; Pena; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5934939; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934939

Staurotheca frigida Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997 (Fig. 9 c–d) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-50, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-63, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-77, mass of stems, c. 20 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48- 189, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-194, mass of stems, c. 30 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-220, mass of stems, c. 30 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-222, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae; ANT XXI /2: PS65/121, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/166, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS65/248, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/274, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae. Ecology and distribution. Species known from depths between 57 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 647 m (Soto Àngel & Peña Cantero 2015); present material collected from 234 to 360 m. Antarctic-Kerguélen species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003). Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on page 29, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527