Staurotheca pachyclada (Jaderholm 1904)
- 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 pachyclada
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously found at depths from 42 (Stepanjants 1979, as Thuiaria juncea) to 1990 m (Peña Cantero in press); present material at 267 – 583 m. Species with a circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).
description
(Fig. 9 g – h)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 77, one colony, c. 50 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48 - 154, one colony, c. 45 mm high; 48 - 220, one colony, c. 25 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48 - 222, one colony, c. 25 mm high; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 237, several stems, c. 130 mm high; PS 65 / 265, several stems, c. 125 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; PS 65 / 336, one colony, c. 85 mm high.