Oswaldella laertesi Pena Cantero 2007
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica) collected by the New Zealand Antarctic expedition BioRoss 2004 with RV Tangaroa
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Kirchenpaueriidae
- genus
- Oswaldella
- species
- Oswaldella laertesi
materials_examined
Material examined. Stn 8, stem 155 mm high (NIWA 117341); Stn 97, stem fragment 14 mm long (NIWA 29736); Stn 171, stem 240 mm high, with gonothecae (MNCN 2.03 / 673); Stn 178, stem 100 mm high, with gonothecae (NIWA 29735). Ecology and distribution. Shelf and slope species, collected at depths between 343 and 736 m (Peña Cantero 2007); present material from 343 and 630 m. Gonothecae in February (Peña Cantero 2007; present material). East Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero 2007), only known from the Cape Adare region, in the Ross Sea (Peña Cantero 2007); present material off Cape Adare, Adare Peninsula and Possession Islands.