Oswaldella billardi Briggs 1938

• 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 billardi; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Davis Sea; East Antarctica; Enderby Land; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica; Wilkes Land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6107492; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287C6282B7C36D4F48927298E7DBA

Oswaldella billardi Briggs, 1938 Oswaldella billardi Briggs, 1938: 40, fig. 3, pl. 15 fig. 1; Naumov & Stepanjants, 1962: 98 –99; 1972: 53–54, fig. 14c; Stepanjants, 1972: 74; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997: 269–273, fig. 1; 1998: 36; 2004: 818–820, fig. 2; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1999: 214; Peña Cantero & Marques, 1999: 85. Oswaldella billardi billardi Stepanjants, 1979: 113, pl. 21 fig. 3a, b. Not Oswaldella billardi — Blanco, 1984: 45–46, pl. 41 fig. 95, pl. 42 figs 96–97 (= Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 p.p.; Oswaldella erratum Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997 p.p.); Blanco & De Redolatti, 1977: 1–8, pls 1–4 (= Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979); Broch, 1948: 13–16, fig. 4b; Peña Cantero et al ., 1997: 349–353, figs 2, 13b (= Oswaldella erratum Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997). Not Oswaldella billardi shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 (= Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 p.p.; Oswaldella erratum Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1997 p.p.). Ecology. Shelf species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 1997), found at depths from 7 (Stepanjants 1972) to 412 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004), on bottoms of small rocks with red algae (Briggs 1938), sand and boulders (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) and rocks, pebbles, sand and mud (Stepanjants 1979). Gonothecae : January (Briggs 1938; Stepanjants 1979), November (Stepanjants 1979) and December (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004, immature). Distribution. Circum-Antarctic (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). East Antarctica : Davis Sea (Briggs 1938; Stepanjants 1972), off Queen Mary Coast and Enderby Land (Naumov & Stepanjants 1962), off Adélie Coast (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) and north of Wilkes Station, Budd Coast, Wilkes Land (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). West Antarctica : off McDonald Ice Rumples, east coast of the Weddell Sea (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, ...