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Oswaldella frigida Pena Cantero & Vervoort 2004

Description

Oswaldella frigida Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2004

Oswaldella frigida Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2004: 830 –832, fig. 8; Peña Cantero, 2013: 129; 2014: 1720–1721, fig. 4a–d.

Ecology. Shelf and slope species, found at depths between 44 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004) and 708 m (Peña Cantero 2014). Gonothecae: January (Peña Cantero 2014).

Distribution. Circum-Antarctic (Peña Cantero 2014). West Antarctica: Off Low Island and off Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2004). East Antarctica: Off Queen Mary Coast (Peña Cantero 2014).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4052 (4) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245887

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References

  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W. (2004) Species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Kirchenpaueriidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species. Journal of Natural History, 38, 805 - 861. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 0022293021000045154
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. (2014) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the continental shelf and slope off Queen Mary Coast (East Antarctica). Polar Biology, 37, 1711 - 1731. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 014 - 1556 - 0