Staurotheca frigida 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 frigida
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species known from depths between 57 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 647 m (Soto Àngel & Peña Cantero 2015); present material collected from 234 to 360 m. Antarctic-Kerguélen species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).
description
(Fig. 9 c – d)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 50, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48 - 63, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48 - 77, mass of stems, c. 20 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48 - 189, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48 - 194, mass of stems, c. 30 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48 - 220, mass of stems, c. 30 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48 - 222, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 121, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS 65 / 166, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS 65 / 248, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS 65 / 274, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae.