Halecium exaggeratum Peña Cantero, Boero & Piraino, 2013

(Fig. 13e)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-27, few stems, up to 20 mm high, on S. lobata; 48-77, few stems, up to 15 mm high, on sponge spicule.

Ecology and distribution. Species reported from 22 (Vervoort 1972b, as Halecium delicatulum) to 350 m (Hartlaub 1904, as Halecium tenellum); present material at 191– 360 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 2013). Present finding constitutes the first evidence for the Weddell Sea.