Halecium exaggeratum Pena Cantero, Boero & Piraino 2013
- 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 exaggeratum
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species reported from 22 (Vervoort 1972 b, 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.
description
(Fig. 13 e)
materials_examined
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.