Oswaldella incognita Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

Molinero, A. González & Peña Cantero, A. L., 2015, SEM study of species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Kirchenpaueriidae), with an annotated checklist of the species of the genus, Zootaxa 4052 (4), pp. 401-441 : 436

Oswaldella incognita Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

Oswaldella incognita Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997: 367 –369, fig. 8; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1998: 36; 2004: 837–839, fig. 11; 2009: 86; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1999: 212 et seq.; Peña Cantero & Marques, 1999: 85; Peña Cantero, 2006: 938, fig. 3E; 2008: 457; 2009: 1748, fig. 3a; 2013: 130; Peña Cantero et al., 2010: 41–57. Oswaldella antarctica — Peña Cantero, 1991: 168, pls 31, 56, pl. 68 fig. a; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1994: 125, fig. 8a–c; 1995: 96–101, figs 43A–E, 44A–F, 64E.

Ecology. Eurybathic species, found at depths between 20 ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and 952 m ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). Epilithic on gravel ( Peña Cantero 2008). Basibiont of Lafoea dumosa (Peña Cantero 2006) . Gonothecae: January (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004; Peña Cantero 2013) and February ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004, 2009; Peña Cantero 2013).

Distribution. Circum-Antarctic (Peña Cantero 2009), though mainly known from West Antarctica . East Antarctica : the Balleny Islands (Peña Cantero 2009). West Antarctica : the South Shetland Islands (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995; Peña Cantero et al. 1997; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004; 2009; Peña Cantero 2006, 2008), the South Orkney Islands and Palmer Archipelago ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004), off Deception Island ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004; Peña Cantero 2008), Low Island ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004; Peña Cantero 2013) and off Bransfield Island, in the Antarctic Peninsula (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2008).