Staurotheca polarsterni 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 polarsterni
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously collected at depths between 181 and 1030 m (Peña Cantero et al. 1997 b); present material from 230 to 758 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 1997 b).
description
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materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 63, one colony, c. 40 mm high; 48 - 70, one colony, c. 90 mm high; 48 - 72, several stems, c. 130 mm high; 48 - 77, one colony, c. 40 mm high; 48 - 82, one colony, c. 75 mm high, on stone; 48 - 97, numerous stems, up to 110 mm high; 48 - 150, numerous stems, up to 120 mm high, on gravel, with male gonothecae; 48 - 154, numerous stems, up to 140 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48 - 197, numerous stems, up to 100 mm high; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 248, several stems, up to 80 mm high; PS 65 / 253, one colony, c. 75 mm high; PS 65 / 265, one colony, c. 130 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS 65 / 274, one colony, c. 85 mm high.