Halecium pseudodelicatulum Pena Cantero 2014

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Haleciidae; Halecium; Halecium pseudodelicatulum; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934997; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887B7A447FFDBE983FF77FE3F9969

Halecium pseudodelicatulum Peña Cantero, 2014 (Fig. 13 j–k) 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 : PS65/237 , one colony, c. 20 mm high; PS65/265 , one colony, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/274 , one colony, c. 80 mm high, on dead octocoral; PS65/278 , one colony, c. 35 mm high. 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 2014b); reported here for the Weddell Sea for the first time. 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 42, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527