Halecium interpolatum Ritchie 1907

• Main Author: Peña Cantero, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Haleciidae; Halecium; Halecium interpolatum; Antarctic; Blanco; Mawson Coast; New Zealand; Ritchie; Scotia Bay; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3511171; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3511171

Halecium interpolatum Ritchie, 1907 (Figs 5 G–J, 8 A–B) Halecium interpolatum Ritchie, 1907: 526, pl. 1 fig. 3, pl. 2 fig. 3; Rees & Thursfield, 1965: 107, 197; Smaldon, Heppell & Watt, 1976: 17; Stepanjants, 1979: 103, pl. 16 fig. 7; Blanco, 1994 a: 156; 1994 b: 186; Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 86; Watson, 2008: 171 –172, fig. 7 A, B. Halecium ovatum Totton, 1930: 143, fig. 3; Vervoort, 1972 b: 339, fig. 1; Stepanjants, 1979: 103, pl. 20 fig. 1 a–g; Blanco, 1994 a: 156; 1994 b: 187; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 1995: 12 –13, fig. 2 G–H; 1999: 212 et seq.; Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 86; Peña Cantero, 2004: 769; 2008: 455, fig. 1 e–g; 2009: 1747, fig. 2 f; 2013: 128, fig. 3 e; Watson, 2008: 172 –173, fig. 8 A, B; Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2009: 85, fig. 1 f; Galea & Schories, 2012 b: 9, fig. 2 J–K; Peña Cantero et al., 2013: 745–747, fig. 6 b. Halecium tenellum —Stepanjants, 1972: 72; Blanco, 1984: 10 –11, pl. 6 figs 14–15. Halecium tubatum Watson, 2008: 174 –175, fig. 10 A, B (in part). ? Halecium ovatum —Watson, 2003: 166, fig. 15 D, E. Material examined. Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902–1904: Scotia Bay, South Orkneys, 06– 12–1903; RSM 1921.143. 1328 Leptotype of H. interpolatum, several stems, up to 35 mm high [in addition, one microslide (1959.33.153) with one stem, c. 23 mm high]; RSM 1921.143.1328A, Paratype of H. interpolatum, several stems, up to 35 mm high. BANZARE [as H. tubatum by Watson (2008)], Stn 105, 67° 46 'S 67 °03'E (Mawson Coast), 13 –02– 1931, 163 m; two microslides (Hydr. 710 / 12): F 147470.2, a few incipient stems in bad condition, and F 147470.3, hydrorhiza with just two incipient stems. Spanish Antarctic Expedition Bentart 95 [H. ovatum by Peña Cantero (2008)]: Stn 27 A, several stems, up to 35 mm high, with gonothecae. New Zealand Antarctic Expedition TAN0402 [H. ovatum by Peña Cantero (2009)]: Stn 239 VV, an old, strongly polysiphonic stem, c. 22 mm high. Spanish Antarctic Expedition Bentart 2006 [H. ovatum by Peña Cantero (2013)]: Stn Low 44, ...