Oswaldella rigida 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
- Kirchenpaueriidae
- genus
- Oswaldella
- species
- Oswaldella rigida
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 80 (Peña Cantero et al. 1997 a) and 1157 m (Peña Cantero 2014 a); present material was collected at depths between 119 and 417 m. Circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero et al. 1997 a).
description
(Fig. 16 f – j)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 27, few stems, up to 55 mm high; 48 - 72, few stems, up to 50 mm high; 48 - 168, few stems, up to 60 mm high; 48 - 189, few stems, up to 55 mm high; 48 - 276, few stems, up to 20 mm high; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 148, few stems, up to 75 mm high; PS 65 / 237, few stems, up to 30 mm high; PS 65 / 278, few stems, up to 70 mm high.