SEM study of species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Kirchenpaueriidae), with an annotated checklist of the species of the genus
Author
Molinero, A. González
Author
Peña Cantero, A. L.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4052
4
401
441
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.1
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1175-5326
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Oswaldella garciacarrascosai
Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997
(
Figs 6
,
16
F, 17F, 19F)
Material examined.
New Zealand
Antarctic
Expedition TAN0802:
Stn 180
,
Tangaroa
,
29 February 2008
,
69.4318°S
,
178.8195°W
(off Cape Adare, Ross Sea,),
447–455 m
(
NIWA
37896).
Description.
Monosiphonic, unbranched stems, up to
70 mm
high, divided into internodes. Angle between cauline apophyses and stem ca. 45°. Cauline apophyses with three nematophores, two axillary ones (
Fig. 6
B), each emerging through simple hole in perisarc, and a third nematophore emerging through ‘mamelon’ (
Fig. 6
A–B).
Hydrocladia unbranched (
Fig. 6
A) or bifurcated. Mesial-inferior nematophore emerging from strongly marked swelling at proximal third of internode (
Fig. 6
D); without nematotheca (
Fig. 6
C–D). Hydrotheca placed on middle of internode (
Fig. 6
A, C–D). Hydrotheca elongate. Adcauline wall mostly adnate, but with a distinct free portion (
Fig. 6
D). Abcauline wall almost straight, but slightly convex basally and typically with slight concavity just under hydrothecal rim (
Fig. 6
C–D). Hydrothecal aperture circular, perpendicular to long axis of internode, rim even (
Fig. 6
C–D).
Gonothecae fusiform.
Male
gonotheca with circular, subterminal aperture. Female gonotheca with wide, circular, distal opening (
Fig. 6
E).
Remarks.
Until now only mature male gonothecae and immature female ones were known (cf. Peña Cantero
et al
. 1997); we have found mature female gonothecae (
Fig. 6
E).