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Heptaprimnoa patagonica Cairns 2012
Authors/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
Heptaprimnoa patagonica Cairns, 2012
Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 21.
Distribution: Southwestern Atlantic off Argentina: continental slope off Mar del Plata, (40°00’S, 56°02’W, 520 m), continental slope off Patagonia (44.872°S, 59.635°W, 1248 m; 45.068°S, 59.501°W, 776 m; 45.605°S, 59.773°W, 1232 m); Malvinas Islands (48°54’S, 56°52’W, 780 m); Burdwood bank (54°10’S, 56°40’W, 265 m) (Cairns 2012); Burdwood bank (767 m) (present study).
Remarks: One of the paratypes of this species was obtained from the Burdwood bank (54°10’S, 56°40’W, 265 m) (Cairns 2012). Cairns’s specimens are uniplanar colonies and dichotomously branched with 8–10 polyps per whorls, whereas our specimen is a liriform colony with 7–8 polyps in each whorl.
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 page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4424884
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Cairns
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Family
- Primnoidae
- Genus
- Heptaprimnoa
- Species
- patagonica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heptaprimnoa patagonica Cairns, 2012 sec. Schejter, Genzano, Pérez, Acuña, Cordeiro, Silva, Garese & Bremec, 2020