Staurotheca vanhoeffeni (Pena Cantero & Garcia Carrascosa 1994)
- 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 vanhoeffeni
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths from 92 (Peña Cantero 2008) to 527 m (Peña Cantero 2014 a); present material at depths between 119 and 333 m. Circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995).
description
(Fig. 9 i – j)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 220, one colony, c. 65 mm high, on gravel; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 248, one colony, c. 120 mm high; PS 65 / 259, one colony, c. 100 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; PS 65 / 265, one colony, c. 230 mm high; PS 65 / 276, one colony, c. 110 mm high, on stone, with female gonothecae; PS 65 / 278, one colony, c. 70 mm high.