Staurotheca glomulosa Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997

Staurotheca glomulosa Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997 (Fig. 9e) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-70, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high; 48-77, mass of stems, c. 75 mm high; 48- 150, mass of stems, c. 60 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; 48-189, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with femal...

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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 glomulosa
Antarctic
Pena
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5934941
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934941
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Summary:Staurotheca glomulosa Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997 (Fig. 9e) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-70, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high; 48-77, mass of stems, c. 75 mm high; 48- 150, mass of stems, c. 60 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; 48-189, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-220, mass of stems, c. 65 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; ANT XVII /3: 111- 19, two colonies, c. 30 and 60 mm high, with male and female gonothecae respectively; ANT XXI /2: PS65/39, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS65/245, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS65/253, some stems, up to 20 mm high; PS65/274, one colony, c. 18 mm high, on bryozoan; PS65/276, few stems, c. 20 mm high, with female gonothecae. Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 55 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 1157 (Peña Cantero 2014a); present material from 112 to 758 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (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

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