Staurotheca glomulosa Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 29

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Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-70, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high; 48-77, mass of stems, c. 75 mm high; 48- 150, mass of stems, c. 60 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; 48-189, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-220, mass of stems, c. 65 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; ANT XVII/3: 111- 19, two colonies, c. 30 and 60 mm high, with male and female gonothecae respectively; ANT XXI/2: PS65/39, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS65/245, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS65/253, some stems, up to 20 mm high; PS65/274, one colony, c. 18 mm high, on bryozoan; PS65/276, few stems, c. 20 mm high, with female gonothecae.

Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 55 ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 1157 ( Peña Cantero 2014a); present material from 112 to 758 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).

References

Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W. (2003) Species of Staurotheca Allman, 1888 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Sertulariidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species. Journal of Natural History, 37, 2653 - 2722. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930210155701

Pena Cantero, A. L. (2014 a) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the continental shelf and slope off Queen Mary Coast (East Antarctica). Polar Biology, 37, 1711 - 1731. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 014 - 1556 - 0

Svoboda, A., Stepanjants, S. & Smirnov, I. (1997) Two polar Hydractinia species (Cnidaria), epibiotic on two closely related brittle stars (Echinodermata): an example for taxonomic and ecological bipolarity. In: Battaglia, B., Valencia, J. & Walton, D. W. H. (Eds.), Antarctic Communities: Species, Structure and Survival. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 22 - 25

Figures

FIGURE 9. a Staurotheca antarctica: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. b St. dichotoma: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement; c–d St. frigida: c stem with male gonothecae; d stem with female gonotheca. e St. glomulosa: hydrotheca. f St. nonscripta: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. g–h St. pachyclada: g stem showing hydrothecal arrangement; h hydrotheca. i–j St. vanhoeffeni: i colony; j stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. k St. polarsterni: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement and female gonothecae.