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Thouarella (Thouarella) variabilis 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

Thouarella (Thouarella) variabilis Wright & Studer, 1889

Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 16; St. 18.

Distribution: Heard Island, 274 m, Prince Edward Island, 567 m, (Wright & Studer 1889); Antarctic, 350– 385m (Kükenthal 1919); Renaud Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctic Peninsula (65˚30’S, 67˚31’W, 180 m; 76˚00’S, 55˚00’W, 457 m), Antipodes Island, New Zealand, (49˚51’S, 178˚35’E, 2010–2100 m) (Taylor et al. 2013); Burdwood bank (607–1000 m) (present study).

Remarks: Synonyms: T. variabilis var. gracilis Wright & Studer, 1889. Thouarella variabilis was addressed in a recent study, testing its potential in paleorecords for changes in environmental conditions (Martinez-Dios et al. 2016). This species is one of the few Antarctic primnoids with some available ecological data in the literature. It was described in terms of its reproductive biology (Brito et al. 1995) and had its feeding behavior related to resuspension processes (Orejas et al. 2000). This is the first record of the species at Burdwood bank and 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 page 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4424884

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E087D9FFE2FFA6FF51FA36FEF4C30E

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Primnoidae
Genus
Thouarella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Alcyonacea
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Wright & Studer
Species
variabilis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Thouarella (Thouarella) variabilis 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.
  • Kukenthal, W. (1919) Gorgonaria. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Tiefsee-Expedition Valdivia, 13 (2), 1 - 946.
  • Taylor, M. L., Cairns, S. D., Agnew, D. & Rogers, A. D. (2013) A revision of the genus Thouarella Gray, 1870 (Octocorallia: Primnoidae), including an illustrated dichotomous key, a new species description, and comments on Plumarella Gray, 1870 and Dasystenella, Versluys, 1906. Zootaxa, 3602 (1), 1 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3602.1.1
  • Martinez-Dios, A., Dominguez-Carrio, C., Zapata-Guardiola, R. & Gili, J. M. (2016) New insights on Antarctic gorgonians' age, growth and their potential as paleorecords. Deep-Sea Research I, 112, 57 - 67. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2016.03.007
  • Brito, T. A. S., Tyler, P. A. & Clarke, A. (1995) Reproductive biology of the Antarctic octocoral Thouarella variabilis (Wright & Studer, 1889). In: den Hartog, J. C. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 1995, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, pp. 63 - 69.
  • Orejas, C., Gili, J. M., Arntz, W. E., Ros, J. D., Lopez, P. J., Teixido, N. & Filipe, P. (2000) Benthic suspension feeders, key players in Antarctic marine ecosystems? Contributions to Science, 1 (3), 299 - 311.