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.