Halecium banzare Watson, 2008

Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), Zootaxa 4570 (1), pp. 1-78 : 39-40

Halecium banzare Watson, 2008

( Fig. 13 b–d)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-44, one colony, c. 230 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-50, one colony, c. 220 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-70, few stems, up to 5 mm high, on B. subrufa ; 48-222, one colony, c. 270 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XXI/2: PS65/276, one colony, c. 18 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Species known from depths between 197 (Peña Cantero 2017) and 950 m (Peña Cantero in press); material examined from 227 to 288 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution ( 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.