Oswaldella antarctica ? (Jaderholm 1904
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off George V Coast (East Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Kirchenpaueriidae
- genus
- Oswaldella
- species
- Oswaldella antarctica
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Briggs (1938) reported this species from Commonwealth Bay, at depths between 630 and 720 m.
discussion
Remarks. It is not possible to determine if the material studied by Briggs (1938) belongs to this species. This author indicated that his specimens were much larger than those described by Jäderholm (1904). We believe that Briggs’s (1938) material could belong to Oswaldella stepanjantsae Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997 b, but it would be necessary to revise his material to resolve this issue.