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Australisis sarmentosa Bayer & Stefani 1987

  • 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

Australisis sarmentosa Bayer & Stefani, 1987

Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 21.

Distribution: South Shetland Islands, 61°19’– 61°21’S, 56°28’– 56°27’S, 403 m; off South Georgia: 54°29’S, 39°22’W, 659–686 m; 55°00.6’S, 37°42.6’W, 494–501 m; 53°27.1’S, 41°39.2’W, 371–424 m (Bayer & Stefani 1987).

Remarks: This species was described 30 years ago, and this finding represents the first record after its description. The present record is the deepest for the species (785 m) and its first occurrence in the Burdwood bank area at MPA Namuncurá II.

Notes

Published as part of Schejter, L., Genzano, G., Pérez, C. D., Acuña, F., Cordeiro, R. T. S., Silva, R. A., Garese, A. & Bremec, C. S., 2020, Checklist of Benthic Cnidaria in the SW Atlantic Ocean (54 ºS- 56 ºS), pp. 201-239 in Zootaxa 4878 (2) on pages 221-222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4424884

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References

  • Bayer, F. M. & Stefani, J. (1987) New and previously known taxa of isidid octocorals (Coelenterata: Gorgonacea) partly from Antarctic waters. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 100 (4), 937 - 991.