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Halecium exaggeratum Pena Cantero, Boero & Piraino 2013
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Description
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.
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 page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Haleciidae
- Genus
- Halecium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Pena Cantero, Boero & Piraino
- Species
- exaggeratum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Halecium exaggeratum Cantero, 2013 sec. Soto & Peña, 2019
References
- Pena Cantero, A. L., Boero, F. & Piraino, S. (2013) Shallow-water benthic hydroids from Tethys Bay (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica). Polar Biology, 36, 731 - 753. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 013 - 1299 - 3
- Vervoort, W. (1972 b) Hydroids from submarine cliffs near Arthur Harbour, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Zoologische Mededelingen, 47, 337 - 357.
- Hartlaub, C. (1904) Hydroiden. In: Expedition antarctique Belge. Resultats du voyage du S. Y. Belgica en 1897 - 1899. Rapports scientifiques, Zoologie, 1 - 19.