Rhysia halecii Hickson & Gravely 1907 ...

• Main Author: Peña Cantero, Álvaro L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Anthoathecata; Rhysiidae; Rhysia; Rhysia halecii; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Ross Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5671800; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5671800

Rhysia halecii (Hickson & Gravely, 1907) (Figs 9 A–D, 10A–C) Stylactis halecii Hickson & Gravely, 1907: 8 pl. 1 figs 5–6, pl. 4 fig. 33; Kramp, 1932: 7; Iwasa, 1934: 262, figs 15–16; Boero & Bouillon, 1993: 259; Peña Cantero, 2004: 768; Bouillon et al., 2006: 157, fig. 88E, F. Halerella halecii — Stechow, 1925: 401; 1962: 417. Stylactaria halecii — Namikawa, 1991: 810. Not Stylactis halecii — Hirohito, 1988: 128, 131–132, fig. 48a, b. Material examined. Discovery Antarctic Expedition 1901-04: Type (NHM 1907.8.20.4), 28.II.1902, McMurdo Bay (Ross Sea), 20 fms, colony growing on Hydrodendron arboreum, with gonozooids. Description. Stolonal colony growing on stems of Hydrodendron arboreum (Fig. 9 A–D). ‘Encrusting hydrorhiza consisting of a dense mass of branching and anastomosing tubes (fig. 6). Each tube is covered with its own very thin sheath of perisarc (fig. 33) and there is no common sheath of coenosarc covering the hydrorhiza as a whole, … In the central parts of the hydrorhiza the tubes are ... : Published as part of Peña Cantero, Álvaro L., 2015, Review of some little-known benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Southern Ocean, pp. 369-392 in Zootaxa 3972 (3) on pages 387-389, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/236731 ...