Halecium tenellum Hincks 1861
- Dataset
- Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Vema and Valdivia seamounts (SE Atlantic)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Haleciidae
- genus
- Halecium
- species
- Halecium tenellum
distribution
Distribution Halecium tenellum is a nearly cosmopolitan species (Cornelius 1975), with records from all oceans, including polar waters, although some identifications from high latitudes in the North Atlantic proved to be erroneous (Calder 1991; Schuchert 2005). Reported from South Africa by Millard (1975). Its bathymetric range extends from the intertidal zone to 1200 m (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002).
materials_examined
Material examined SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN • 7 colonies, without gonothecae (1 growing on Zygophylax sp., 1 on bivalve shell, and 5 on ghost fishing net); Valdivia Seamount, stn BT 12; 24 ° 49 ′ 01 ″ – 24 ° 47 ′ 38 ″ S, 6 ° 24 ′ 40 ″ – 6 ° 25 ′ 26 ″ E; 887 – 886 m depth; 7 Feb. 2015; SEAFO- 2015 leg.; SEAFO- 2015 - 40282, SEAFO- 2015 - 40402, SEAFO- 2015 - 40762, SEAFO- 2015 - 40797, SEAFO- 2015 - 40811, SEAFO- 2015 - 40850, SEAFO- 2015 - 40852.
Name
- Homonyms
- Halecium tenellum Hincks 1861