Halecium banzare Watson 2008
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Haleciidae
- genus
- Halecium
- species
- Halecium banzare
biology_ecology
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 2014 b), reported here for the Weddell Sea for the first time.
description
(Fig. 13 b – d)
materials_examined
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: PS 65 / 276, one colony, c. 18 mm high.
Name
- Homonyms
- Halecium banzare Watson 2008