Halecium exaggeratum Peña Cantero, Boero & Piraino, 2013

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 40

Halecium exaggeratum Peña Cantero, Boero & Piraino, 2013

( Fig. 13e )

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-27, few stems, up to 20 mm high, on S. lobata ; 48-77, few stems, up to 15 mm high, on sponge spicule.

Ecology and distribution. Species reported from 22 ( Vervoort 1972b, as Halecium delicatulum ) to 350 m ( Hartlaub 1904, as Halecium tenellum ); present material at 191– 360 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 2013). Present finding constitutes the first evidence for the Weddell Sea.

Figures

FIGURE 13. a Halecium cf. antarcticum: hydrophore and hydrotheca. b–d H. banzare: b hydrophore and hydrotheca; c male gonotheca; d colony. e H. exaggeratum: hydrophore and hydrotheca. f–g H. incertus: f hydrophore and hydrotheca; g gonotheca. h H. interpolatum: hydrophore and hydrotheca. i H. jaederholmi: hydrophore and hydrotheca. j–k H. pseudodelicatulum: j hydrophore and hydrotheca; k female gonotheca. l H. pseudoincertus: hydrophore and hydrotheca.