Halecium pseudodelicatulum Peña Cantero, 2014

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 42

Halecium pseudodelicatulum Peña Cantero, 2014

( Fig. 13 j–k)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-77, one colony, c. 70 mm high; 48-168, one colony, c. 25 mm high, on dead octocoral; 48-194, one colony, c. 35 mm high, with gonothecae; 48-222, some stems, up to 7 mm high, on Sc. nana ; ANT XXI/2: PS65/237, one colony, c. 20 mm high; PS65/265, one colony, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/274, one colony, c. 80 mm high, on dead octocoral; PS65/278, one colony, c. 35 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Previously collected at depths from 82 (Peña Cantero 2013, as Halecium delicatulum ) to 240 m ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009, as Halecium delicatulum ); present material from 119 to 360 m. Until now, valid records are restricted to West Antarctica ( Peña Cantero 2014b); reported here for the Weddell Sea for the first time.

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.