Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer 1889
Creators
- 1. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP). Paseo Victoria Ocampo 1, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Mar del Plata, Argentina. & schejter @ inidep. edu. ar, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5443 - 4048
- 2. genzano @ mdp. edu. ar; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9818 - 7648
- 3. Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Rua Alto do Reservatório s / n, Bela Vista, CEP: 55608 - 680, Vitória de Santo Antão-PE, Brazil. & carlos. perez @ ufpe. br, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0866 - 1183
- 4. Estación Científica Coiba (Coiba-AIP), Clayton, Panamá, República de Panamá.
- 5. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manuel de Medeiros, s / n, Dois Irmãos, CEP: 52171 - 900, Recife / PE, Brazil. & Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA ralfts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3164 - 5333
- 6. Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Rua Alto do Reservatório s / n, Bela Vista, CEP: 55608 - 680, Vitória de Santo Antão-PE, Brazil.
Description
Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer, 1889
Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 23.
Distribution: As A. paessleri May, 1899 (Verseveldt & Ofwegen 1992): off Río de la Plata (38°06’S, 55°13’W; 440–480 m) (Castro 1990); Buenos Aires (38°58’S, 55°17’W; 595–642 m), Patagonia (44°19’S, 59°52’W; 183–366 m), (47°09’S, 60°38’W; 424–428 m), Strait of Magellan (150 m) (Verseveldt 1967); Chile (May 1899); South Georgia Islands (Pérez & Zamponi 2004); Seymour Island (150 m) (Antarctic Peninsula) (Molan- der 1929). As A. antarcticum: Hear Island (Australia) (135m), off South Georgia (54°21’S, 35°58’W, 144–164 m) and Cape Armitage, Ross Island, Antarctica (Wright & Studer 1889; Verseveldt & Ofwegen 1992); Franklin Island (76°10’S, 168°30’E, 79 m) (Ross Sea) (Hickson 1902); off Mt. Erebus (Ross Sea) (328 m), Ross Sea (42–407 m) (Hickson 1907); Burdwood bank (Molander 1929; present study). This is the first record at MPA Namuncurá I, Burdwood bank.
Remarks: Colonies of A. antarcticum examined are similar to A. sollasi in growth form, but differ in having capstans sparsely tuberculate and tentacle bases without clubs.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Alcyoniidae
- Genus
- Alcyonium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Wright & Studer
- Species
- antarcticum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alcyonium antarcticum Wright, 1889 sec. Schejter, Genzano, Pérez, Acuña, Cordeiro, Silva, Garese & Bremec, 2020
References
- Wright, E. P. & Studer, T. (1889) Report onthe Alcyonaria collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, Zoology, 31, 1 - 314.
- May, W. (1899) Alcyonarien. In: Hamburger Magalhaensische Sammelreise, Friederichsen, L. & Co., Hamburg, pp. 1 - 22.
- Verseveldt, J. & Ofwegen, L. P. (1992) New and redescribed species of Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758 (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden, 66 (7), 155 - 181.
- Castro, C. B. (1990) Revisao dos Octocorallia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) do litoral Sul-Americano: da foz do Rio Amazonas a foz do Rio da Prata. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 343 pp.
- Verseveldt, J. (1967) The Octocorallia collected by R / V " Vema " in the Atlantic Ocean. American Museum Novitates, 2282, 1 - 19.
- Perez, C. D. & Zamponi, M. O. (2004) New records of octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Zoogeographic considerations. Zootaxa, 630, 1 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 630.1.1
- Hickson, S. J. (1902) Alcyonium paessleri. Report on the collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the " Southern Cross ", London, 293 pp.
- Hickson, S. J. (1907) Coelentera I. Alcyonaria. National Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition, Natural History, 3, 1 - 15.
- Molander, A. R. (1929) Die Octactinarien. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903, 2 (2), 1 - 86, figs. 1 - 27, pls. 1 - 5.