Halecium tenellum Hincks, 1861

Gil, Marta & Ramil, Fran, 2021, Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Vema and Valdivia seamounts (SE Atlantic), European Journal of Taxonomy 758, pp. 49-96 : 66-67

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1425
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5095141
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EB6F5251-FFA3-FF89-ED70-F9D2361BFE43
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Halecium tenellum Hincks, 1861
status

Treatment

Halecium tenellum Hincks, 1861 View in CoL

Halecium tenellum Hincks, 1861: 252 View in CoL , pl. 6 figs 1–4.

Halecium tenellum View in CoL – Cornelius 1975: 409–411, fig. 12. — Ramil & Vervoort 1992: 90–91, fig. 21f–g.

Material examined

SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN • 7 colonies, without gonothecae (1 growing on Zygophylax sp. , 1 on bivalve shell, and 5 on ghost fishing net); Valdivia Seamount , stn BT12; 24°49′01″–24°47′38″ S, 6°24′40″–6°25′26″ E; 887– 886 m depth; 7 Feb. 2015; SEAFO-2015 leg.; SEAFO-2015-40282 , SEAFO-2015-40402 , SEAFO-2015-40762 , SEAFO-2015-40797 , SEAFO-2015-40811 , SEAFO- 2015-40850 , SEAFO-2015-40852 .

Distribution

Halecium tenellum is a nearly cosmopolitan species ( Cornelius 1975), with records from all oceans, including polar waters, although some identifications from high latitudes in the North Atlantic proved to be erroneous ( Calder 1991; Schuchert 2005). Reported from South Africa by Millard (1975). Its bathymetric range extends from the intertidal zone to 1200 m ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Hydrozoa
Order	Leptothecata
Family	Haleciidae
Genus	Halecium