Schizotricha nana Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1996

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 44-45

Schizotricha nana Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1996

( Fig. 15 d–f)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-50, several stems, up to 270 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae; 48-194, several stems, up to 160 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae; 48-220, several stems, up to 210 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae; 48-222, few stems, up to 100 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48-223, several stems, up to 130 mm high, with gonothecae; 48-276, several stems, up to 320 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XVII/3: 111-9, few stems, up to 125 mm high, with gonothecae; 111-18, few stems, up to 90 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XXI/2: PS65/39, several stems, up to 200 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/ 121, several stems, up to 280 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/237, few stems, up to 140 mm high, on gravel, with gonothecae; PS65/280, few stems, up to 80 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/281, few stems, up to 85 mm high; PS65/336, few stems, up to 90 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 43 ( Stepanjants 1972, as Schizotricha turqueti )

and 1890 m ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2005); present material from 62 to 417 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 1996).

Figures

FIGURE 15. a Aglaophenia baggins: hydrotheca. b–c Schizotricha glacialis: b forked hydrocladial internode; c unforked hydrocladial internode. d–f Sc. nana: d stem; e forked hydrocladial internode; f unforked hydrocladial internode. g–j Sc. unifurcata: g stem; h forked hydrocladial internode; i unforked hydrocladial internode; j internode with two hydrothecae.