Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants 1979

• Main Authors: Molinero, A. González, Peña Cantero, A. L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Kirchenpaueriidae; Oswaldella; Oswaldella shetlandica; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Deception Island; Low Island; Palmer Archipelago; South Orkney Islands; South Shetland Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6107545; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287C6282E7C33D4F48BA32E027CEE

Oswaldella shetlandica Stepanjants, 1979 Oswaldella billardi — Blanco & De Redolatti, 1977: 1 –8, pls 1–4. Oswaldella billardi shetlandica p.p. Stepanjants, 1979: 114, pl. 21 fig. 3V, G, pl. 25 fig. 7. Oswaldella billardi p.p. Blanco, 1984: 45 –46, pl. 41 fig. 95. Oswaldella sp. 2 Peña Cantero, 1991: 182 –186, pl. 34 figs a–j, pl. 58 figs a–f, pl. 68 fig. c; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1994: 126, fig. 8i –l; 1995: 107–111, figs 48A–J, 49A–F, 64G. Oswaldella shetlandica Peña Cantero et al., 1995: 342 –347, fig. 1; 1997: 344; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1998: 36; 2004: 845– 847, fig. 14; 2009: 86; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1999: 212 et seq .; Peña Cantero & Marques, 1999: 85; Peña Cantero, 2008: 457; 2013: 130. Ecology. Eurybathic species, collected at depths from 24 (Peña Cantero 2008) to 952 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004), on rocky (Stepanjants 1979) and stony bottoms (Peña Cantero et al . 1995.). Epibiotic on other hydroids (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Basibiont for colonies of Halecium ovatum and Symplectoscyphus hero (Peña Cantero 2008). Gonothecae : January and February (Peña Cantero et al. 1995; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004, 2009; Peña Cantero 2008), February (Peña Cantero 2013), March, April and December (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Distribution. West Antarctic (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004), being known from the South Shetland Islands (Stepanjants 1979, Peña Cantero et al . 1995; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004, 2009; Peña Cantero 2008), off Deception Island (Peña Cantero 2008), off Low Island (Blanco & De Redolatti 1977; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009; Peña Cantero 2013), from Palmer Archipelago and the South Orkney Islands (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004), and off Argentine Island (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004) and Bransfield Island (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009), in the Antarctic Peninsula. Published as part of Molinero, A. González & Peña Cantero, A. L., 2015, SEM study of species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, ...