Staurotheca glomulosa Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997
- 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 glomulosa
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 55 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 1157 (Peña Cantero 2014 a); present material from 112 to 758 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).
description
(Fig. 9 e)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 70, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high; 48 - 77, mass of stems, c. 75 mm high; 48 - 150, mass of stems, c. 60 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; 48 - 189, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48 - 220, mass of stems, c. 65 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; ANT XVII / 3: 111 - 19, two colonies, c. 30 and 60 mm high, with male and female gonothecae respectively; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 39, mass of stems, c. 80 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS 65 / 245, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS 65 / 253, some stems, up to 20 mm high; PS 65 / 274, one colony, c. 18 mm high, on bryozoan; PS 65 / 276, few stems, c. 20 mm high, with female gonothecae.