Oswaldella bifurca Hartlaub 1904

• Main Authors: Molinero, A. González, Peña Cantero, A. L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella bifurca; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Balleny Islands; Bellingshausen Sea; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6107490; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287C6282B7C36D4F48A862F287ABA

Oswaldella bifurca Hartlaub, 1904 Schizotricha bifurca Hartlaub, 1904: 16, pl. 3 fig. 4–8. Oswaldella bifurca — Stechow, 1919: 852; 1920: 40 (32); Peña Cantero et al ., 1997: 345–349, figs 1, 13a; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1998: 179; 1999: 214; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1998: 36; 2004: 816–818, fig. 1; Peña Cantero & Marques, 1999: 85; Peña Cantero, 2012: 858. Not Oswaldella bifurca — Naumov & Stepanjants, 1962: 98; Stepanjants, 1979: 112, pl. 21 fig. 4; Blanco, 1984: 43, pl. 39 figs 89, 90, pl. 40 figs 91–93, pl. 41 fig. 94. Not Oswaldella bifurca — Totton, 1930: 208, fig. 50 (= Oswaldella tottoni Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1996); Peña Cantero, 1991: 175–179, pl. 32; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1994: 125–126, fig. 8d–f; 1995: 101–104, fig. 45A–E (= Oswaldella grandis Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997); Millard, 1977: 40, fig. 12a–c (=? Ventromma sp.). Ecology. Deep-water species, found at depths from 342 to 1610 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Gonothecae : November (Hartlaub 1904), January (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004) and February (Peña Cantero et al . 1997; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Basibiont of other hydroids (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Distribution. Circum-Antarctic (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). West Antarctica : the Bellingshausen Sea (Hartlaub 1904) and the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al . 1997). East Antarctica : the Balleny Islands, the Ross Sea, and off Victoria Land (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Published as part of Molinero, A. González & Peña Cantero, A. L., 2015, SEM study of species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Kirchenpaueriidae), with an annotated checklist of the species of the genus, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4052 (4) on page 433, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245887