Acryptolaria frigida Peña Cantero, 2014

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 20

Acryptolaria frigida Peña Cantero, 2014

( Fig. 6 a–b)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-77, two stems, up to 110 mm high, on sponge and octocoral; 48-197, one colony, 60 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Reported from 85 ( Peña Cantero 2010, as Acryptolaria sp.) to 728 m ( Peña Cantero 2014a); present material collected between 341 and 416 m. Circum-Antarctic species ( Peña Cantero 2014a).

Figures

FIGURE 6. a–b Acryptolaria frigida: a stem; b hydrotheca; c–f Filellum antarcticum: c hydrotheca; d coppinia; e section of a coppinia showing gonothecae and eggs; f detail of gonothecal aperture. g Filellum cf. magnificum: hydrotheca. h Filellum cf. bouvetensis: hydrotheca. i–j Lafoea dumosa: i stem; j detail of the stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. k Lafoea gaussica: hydrotheca. l-m Abietinella operculata: l stems; m detail of the stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. n Hebella cf. plana: hydrotheca.