Oswaldella erratum Pena Cantero & 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; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella erratum; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Pena; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5935019; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5935019

Oswaldella erratum Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997 (Fig. 16 a–e) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-4, few stems, up to 80 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae; 48-50, few stems, up to 100 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48-58, few stems, up to 90 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48-168, few stems, up to 60 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48-197, few stems, up to 45 mm high; 48-222, few stems, up to 55 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48-276, few stems, up to 95 mm high, with developing gonothecae; ANT XXI /2: PS65/39, few stems, up to 70 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/121, several stems, up to 100 mm high, with developing gonothecae; PS65/132, several stems, up to 205 mm high, some on polychaete tube; PS65/148, few stems, up to 75 mm high, on gravel; PS65/166, several stems, up to 160 mm high; PS65/174, several stems, up to 170 mm high; PS65/175, several stems, up to 120 mm high; PS65/237, several stems, up to 120 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/274, several stems, up to 150 mm high; PS65/280, several stems, up to 140 mm high; PS65/336, one stem, c. 20 mm high. Ecology and distribution. Species previously found at depths between 55 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004) and 696 m (Peña Cantero et al. 1997a); present material between 166 and 417 m. West Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). 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 46, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527