Oswaldella incognita Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997
- Dataset
- Additions to knowledge of the biodiversity of benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in the Balleny Islands (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Kirchenpaueriidae
- genus
- Oswaldella
- species
- Oswaldella incognita
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously known off Buckle Island, from depths between 70 and 584 m (Peña Cantero 2009). The material studied here was collected at depths from 70 to 292 m off Young and Buckle islands; gonothecae found in material collected in March.
materials_examined
Material examined. TAN 0102 / K 0809, one stem 120 mm high, with gonothecae (NIWA 144358); TAN 0602 / 430, one stem 90 mm high, with only a few hydrocladia left, in bad condition (NIWA 144253), one stem 200 mm high, with gonothecae (NIWA 144250) and one stem 110 mm high, with just a few hydrocladia left (NIWA 144249); TAN 0602 / 436, one stem 80 mm high, with one gonotheca (NIWA 144257).