Halecium incertus Naumov & Stepanjants 1962

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Haleciidae; Halecium; Halecium incertus; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5934991; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934991

Halecium incertus Naumov & Stepanjants, 1962 (Fig. 13 f–g, 14a) Material examined. ANT XXI /2: PS65/121, one colony, c. 220 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; PS65/248, one colony, c. 260 mm high, on stone, with female gonothecae. Ecology and distribution. In Antarctic waters, reported at depths from 15 (Stepanjants 1979) to 527 m (Peña Cantero 2014a); present material at 268– 287 m. Species with Antarctic–Kerguélen distribution (Peña Cantero & Gili 2006). This new report constitutes the first evidence from both the Weddell Sea and West Antarctica. Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on page 40, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527