Sertularella polyzonias (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fig. 4D

Sertularia polyzonias Linnaeus, 1758: 813.

Sertularella polyzonias – Ramil & Vervoort 1992: 225–227, fig. 63a–b. — Cornelius 1995: 74–76, fig. 17.

Material examined

SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN • 5 colonies, 6–13 mm high (2 growing on algae and 2 on bryozoan), 3 of them bear gonothecae; Vema Seamount, stn BT5; 31°37′16″– 31°36′58″ S, 8°22′37″– 8°23′06″ E; 71–94 m depth; 31 Jan. 2015; SEAFO-2015 leg.; SEAFO-2015-40197, SEAFO-2015-40347, SEAFO-2015-40387, SEAFO-2015-40602, SEAFO-2015-40768, LZM-UV slide R. 583.

Distribution

Sertularella polyzonias is a circumglobal species (Gil 2017). In the Southeast Atlantic, it was reported from Angola by Broch (1914). Its bathymetric distribution ranges from 2 (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002) to 2500 m (Fraser 1944).

Family Halopterididae Millard, 1962