Staurotheca nonscripta Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 30-31

Staurotheca nonscripta Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997

( Fig. 9f )

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-58, few stems, c. 15 mm high; 48-77, some stems, up to 30 mm high; ANT XXI/ 2: PS65/166, some stems, up to 35 mm high; PS65/248, mass of stems, c. 140 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS65/265, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS65/274, some stems, up to 45 mm high; PS65/280, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS65/292 mass of stems, c. 75 mm high, with male gonothecae.

Ecology and distribution. Species reported at depths between 15 ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 728 m

( Peña Cantero 2014a); material examined collected from 191 to 598 m. Antarctic-Patagonian species ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).

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.