Halecium pseudodelicatulum Pena Cantero 2014
- 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 pseudodelicatulum
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously collected at depths from 82 (Peña Cantero 2013, as Halecium delicatulum) to 240 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009, as Halecium delicatulum); present material from 119 to 360 m. Until now, valid records are restricted to West Antarctica (Peña Cantero 2014 b); reported here for the Weddell Sea for the first time.
description
(Fig. 13 j – k)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 77, one colony, c. 70 mm high; 48 - 168, one colony, c. 25 mm high, on dead octocoral; 48 - 194, one colony, c. 35 mm high, with gonothecae; 48 - 222, some stems, up to 7 mm high, on Sc. nana; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 237, one colony, c. 20 mm high; PS 65 / 265, one colony, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS 65 / 274, one colony, c. 80 mm high, on dead octocoral; PS 65 / 278, one colony, c. 35 mm high.