Halecium tenellum Hincks 1861

• Main Authors: Gil, Marta, Ramil, Fran
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Haleciidae; Halecium; Halecium tenellum; North Atlantic; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5095141; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/EB6F5251FFA3FF89ED70F9D2361BFE43

Halecium tenellum Hincks, 1861 Halecium tenellum Hincks, 1861: 252, pl. 6 figs 1–4. Halecium tenellum – Cornelius 1975: 409–411, fig. 12. — Ramil & Vervoort 1992: 90–91, fig. 21f–g. Material examined SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN • 7 colonies, without gonothecae (1 growing on Zygophylax sp., 1 on bivalve shell, and 5 on ghost fishing net); Valdivia Seamount, stn BT12; 24°49′01″–24°47′38″ S, 6°24′40″–6°25′26″ E; 887– 886 m depth; 7 Feb. 2015; SEAFO-2015 leg.; SEAFO-2015-40282, SEAFO-2015-40402, SEAFO-2015-40762, SEAFO-2015-40797, SEAFO-2015-40811, SEAFO- 2015-40850, SEAFO-2015-40852. Distribution Halecium tenellum is a nearly cosmopolitan species (Cornelius 1975), with records from all oceans, including polar waters, although some identifications from high latitudes in the North Atlantic proved to be erroneous (Calder 1991; Schuchert 2005). Reported from South Africa by Millard (1975). Its bathymetric range extends from the intertidal zone to 1200 m (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). Published as part of Gil, Marta & Ramil, Fran, 2021, Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Vema and Valdivia seamounts (SE Atlantic), pp. 49-96 in European Journal of Taxonomy 758 on pages 66-67, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1425, http://zenodo.org/record/5088125