Schizotricha glacialis (Hickson & Gravely 1907)
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Halopterididae
- genus
- Schizotricha
- species
- Schizotricha glacialis
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Rare species, only reported twice: from its type locality in the Ross Sea at a depth of 180 m (Hickson & Gravely 1907, as Plumularia glacialis), and from the eastern part of the Weddell Sea, at a depth of 620 – 640 m (Peña Cantero et al. 1996); present material collected at 129 – 132 m. Probably a circum- Antarctic species. Present finding constitutes the third record of the species and the first evidence from the South Shetland Islands.
description
(Fig. 15 b – c)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 353, one colony, c. 90 mm high, with gonothecae.