Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
Author
Soto, Joan J.
Author
Peña, Álvaro L.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-22
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1
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1175-5326
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Halecium banzare
Watson, 2008
(
Fig. 13
b–d)
Material examined.
ANT XV/3
:
48-44
, one colony, c.
230 mm
high, with male gonothecae;
48-50
, one colony, c.
220 mm
high, with male gonothecae;
48-70
, few stems, up to
5 mm
high, on
B. subrufa
;
48-222
, one colony, c.
270 mm
high, with gonothecae;
ANT XXI/2
:
PS65/276
, one colony, c.
18 mm
high.
Ecology and distribution.
Species known from depths between 197 (Peña Cantero 2017) and
950 m
(Peña Cantero
in press
); material examined from
227 to
288 m
. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (
Peña Cantero 2014b
), reported here for the Weddell Sea for the first time.