Staurotheca vanhoeffeni ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1994 )

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 31

Staurotheca vanhoeffeni ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1994)

( Fig. 9 i–j)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-220, one colony, c. 65 mm high, on gravel; ANT XXI/2: PS65/248, one colony, c. 120 mm high; PS65/259, one colony, c. 100 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; PS65/265, one colony, c. 230 mm high; PS65/276, one colony, c. 110 mm high, on stone, with female gonothecae; PS65/278, one colony, c. 70 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths from 92 ( Peña Cantero 2008) to 527 m ( Peña Cantero 2014a); present material at depths between 119 and 333 m. Circum-Antarctic distribution ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995).

Figures

FIGURE 9. a Staurotheca antarctica: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. b St. dichotoma: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement; c–d St. frigida: c stem with male gonothecae; d stem with female gonotheca. e St. glomulosa: hydrotheca. f St. nonscripta: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. g–h St. pachyclada: g stem showing hydrothecal arrangement; h hydrotheca. i–j St. vanhoeffeni: i colony; j stem showing hydrothecal arrangement. k St. polarsterni: stem showing hydrothecal arrangement and female gonothecae.