Staurotheca antarctica Hartlaub 1904
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Sertulariidae
- genus
- Staurotheca
- species
- Staurotheca antarctica
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 55 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 866 m (Peña Cantero in press); present material from 228 to 598 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).
description
(Fig. 9 a)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 168, mass of stems, c. 20 mm high; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 292, one colony, c. 30 mm high, with male gonothecae.
Name
- Homonyms
- Staurotheca antarctica Hartlaub 1904