Staurotheca dichotoma ? Allman 1888
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off George V Coast (East Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Sertulariidae
- genus
- Staurotheca
- species
- Staurotheca dichotoma
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Briggs (1938) reported this species from Commonwealth Bay, at depths between 630 and 720 m. Antarctic-Kerguelen distribution (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).
description
Staurotheca dichotoma — Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2003: 2681 – 2683, fig. 7 (synonymy).
discussion
Remarks. Record by Briggs (1938) is doubtful because he provided neither description nor measurements. This author indicated that his specimen was provided with vase-shaped female gonothecae. However, gonothecae of that shape are also found in other species of Staurotheca (e. g. Staurotheca glomulosa Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997 and S. nonscripta).
Name
- Homonyms
- Staurotheca dichotoma ? Allman 1888