Oswaldella grandis Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997

• Main Authors: Molinero, A. González, Peña Cantero, A. L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella grandis; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; Deception Island; Livingston Island; Blanco; Elephant Island; Pena; Molinero; Antarc*; Low Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6107518; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6107518

Oswaldella grandis Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997 Oswaldella grandis Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997: 363 –367, figs 7, 14 C, D; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1998: 179; 1999: 212 et seq.; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1998: 36; 2004: 833–835, fig. 9; 2009: 86; Peña Cantero & Marques, 1999: 85; Peña Cantero & Ramil, 2006: 953, figs 2 D, 3 A–C; Peña Cantero, 2008: 457; 2013: 129–130. Oswaldella bifurca — Peña Cantero, 1991: 175, pl. 32; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1994: 125, fig. 8 d–f; 1995: 101–104, fig. 45 A–E. ? 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. Ecology. Eurybathic species, found at depths between 20 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and 922 m (Peña Cantero & Ramil 2006), on muddy bottoms and on bottoms with small stones (Peña Cantero et al. 1997). Basibiont of other hydroids (Peña Cantero et al. 1997; Peña Cantero 2008). Gonothecae: January (Peña Cantero et al. 1997; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004; Peña Cantero & Ramil 2006; Peña Cantero 2008) and February (Peña Cantero et al. 1997; Peña Cantero 2008; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009). Distribution. West Antarctic (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 1998), known from the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al. 1997), off Elephant Island (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995), Bransfield Strait (Peña Cantero & Ramil 2006), off Deception Island (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004; Peña Cantero 2008), off Low Island (Peña Cantero 2013), and off King George Island (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and off Livingston Island (Peña Cantero 2008), in the South Shetland Islands. 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 436, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.1, ...