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Halecium banzare Watson 2008

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Haleciidae
Genus
Halecium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Watson
Species
banzare
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Halecium banzare Watson, 2008 sec. Soto & Peña, 2019

References

  • Watson, J. E. (2008) Hydroids of the BANZARE expeditions, 1929 - 1931: the family Haleciidae (Hydrozoa, Leptothecata) from the Australian Antarctic Territory. Memoirs of the Museum of Fictoria, 65, 165 - 178. https: // doi. org / 10.24199 / j. mmv. 2008.65.9
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. (2014 b) Revision of the Antarctic species of Halecium Oken, 1815 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Haleciidae). Zootaxa, 3790 (2), 243 - 280. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3790.2.2