Halecium pusillum

Moura, Carlos J., 2015, The hydrozoan fauna (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the peaks of the Ormonde and Gettysburg seamounts (Gorringe Bank, NE Atlantic), Zootaxa 3972 (2), pp. 148-180 : 157-158

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.2.2
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scientific name	Halecium pusillum
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Halecium pusillum View in CoL

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Eudendrium pusillum M. Sars, 1857: 154 View in CoL , pl. 1 figs 14–16.

Halecium pusillum View in CoL .— Medel & López-González, 1996: 199.—Medel et al., 1998: 37–38, fig. 4.—Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 71–74, fig. 14d–e.

Material studied. Ormonde, stn 4: few colonies, on algae; DBUA 1518.02. Gettysburg, stn 10: few colonies; on Aglaophenia kirchenpaueri , Sertularella gayi and algae; DBUA 1518.01; Genbank accession no. KM402027 View Materials .

Remarks. An exemplar from station 10 confirmed the identity of this species with 16S haplotype data. It clusters with high nodal support with 16S sequences of samples from Roscoff (Genbank accession number FJ550499 View Materials ) and western Portugal (unpublished sequence), although with some sequence divergence (Moura, unpublished analyses).

Reported distribution. Eastern Atlantic.— Belgium ( Leloup 1952), France (e.g. Billard 1927; Philbert 1935; Teissier 1965; Fey 1970), UK (e.g. Medin 2011), N Spain (e.g. Rioja 1906; Aguirrezabalaga et al. 1984; Isasi 1985; Ramil 1988; Altuna & García Carrascosa 1990; Alvarez 1993; Altuna 1994a), mainland Portugal ( Da Cunha 1944, 1950), S Spain ( Ramil & Vervoort 1992b), Gorringe (present study) and Madeira ( Wirtz, 2007).

Mediterranean.—Western side: Adriatic ( Broch 1912, 1933; Babic 1913), Italy ( Sars 1857; Rossi 1961; Boero 1981a, b; Boero & Fresi 1986; Piraino & Morri 1980; Puce et al. 2009), France (e.g. Motz-Kossowska 1911; Stechow 1919; Leloup 1934a; Picard 1951b, 1952) and Spain (e.g. García Corrales et al. 1978; García Carrascosa 1981; Gili 1986; Gili et al. 1984; Templado et al. 1986; Medel et al. 1998) including Balearic Islands ( Gili & García Rubies 1985; Roca 1986, 1989) and Chafarinas Islands (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002).

Elsewhere.—With sparse (perhaps dubious) records from the western Atlantic (French Guayana: Leloup 1960), Indian Ocean (Indochina: Leloup 1937), and western and eastern Pacific ( Korea: Park 1993; Japan: Hirohito 1995, and Galapagos Islands: Calder et al. 2003).