Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879)

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), Zootaxa 4878 (2), pp. 201-239 : 226

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1

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scientific name

Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879)
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Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879) View in CoL

Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 13; St. 18; St. 21. PD BB 2017: St. 31; St. 33 (MACN-In: 43488)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Williams 2011). Some records include: Off Namibia, Africa (23°11.8– 25°7.0’S, 12°51.6’– 13°43.5’E, 267–849 m) ( López-González & Gili 2001); Off Newfoundland, Canada (843 m) ( Baker et al. 2012); Gulf of Biscaya, 171 m ( Grasshoff 1982); Off Oregon, USA (44.00° 28.30’N, 125.00° 13.40’W, 1335–1372 m) ( Williams & Alderslade 2011); Aleutian Islands, USA ( Heifetz et al. 2005); Sars Seamount (59°42.45’S, 68°49.65’W, 520 m); off Cape Horn (57°00.33’S, 67°35.1’W, 450m) (as Anthoptilum cf. grandiflorum ) ( Auscavitch & Waller 2017); La Paloma, Uruguay (35º13’S 52º21’W, 400m) ( Castro 1990), off Buenos Aires, Argentina (41°30´S 57°20´W 439 m; 41°24´S 57°10´W 800 m as Pennatula argentina ) ( Acuña & Zamponi 1992); Malvinas Is. (52º12’S 56º51’W, 1105 m) ( Pasternak 1975); Burdwood bank ( Schejter et al. 2018).

Remarks: In the present study A. grandiflorum represented 62% of the total catch at St. 33 suggesting the presence of dense meadows at the NW slope of Burdwood bank that may fall within the habitats considered Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems ( Schejter et al. 2020). Many collected specimens had associated sea anemones of the species Hormathia pectinata (see Schejter et al. 2018).

Acuna, F. H. & Zamponi, M. O. (1992) Pennatulacea (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) de la region subantartica: nuevos taxa y registros. Iheringia, Serie Zoologia, 73, 47 - 53.

Auscavitch, S. & Waller, R. (2017) Biogeographical patterns among deep sea megbenthic communities across the Drake Passage. Antarctic Science, 29 (6), 531 - 543. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0954102017000256

Baker, K. D., Wareham, V. E., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Haedrich, R. L., Fifield, D. A., Edinger, E. N. & Gilkinson, K. D. (2012) Distributional patterns of deep-sea coral assemblages in three submarine canyons off Newfoundland, Canada. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 445, 235 - 249. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 09448

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.

Grasshoff, M. (1982) Die Gorgonaria, Pennatularia und Antipatharia des Tiefwassers der Biskaya (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 4 (3), 941 - 978.

Heifetz, J., Wing, B. L., Stone, R. P., Malecha, P. W. & Courtney, D. L. (2005) Corals of the Aleutian Islands. Fisheries Oceanography, 14, 131 - 138. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2419.2005.00371. x

Lopez-Gonzalez, P. J. & Gili, J. M. (2001) New records of Pennatulacea (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the African Atlantic coast, with description of a new species and a zoogeographic analysis. Scientia Marina, 65 (1), 59 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 2001.65 n 159

Pasternak, F. A. (1975) Deep-sea pennatularians genus Umbellula from the Caribbean Sea and Puerto-Rican Trench. In: Scientific studies Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and adjacent waters. Transactions of the P. P. Shirsov Institute of Oceanology, 100, 160 - 173.

Schejter, L., Acuna, F. H., Garese, A., Cordeiro, R. & Perez, C. D. (2018) Sea pens (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea) from Argentine waters: new distributional records and first report of associated sea anemones. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 13 (4), 292 - 301.

Schejter, L., Genzano, G., Gaitan, E., Perez, C. D. & Bremec, C. S. (2020) Benthic communities in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean: Conservation value of animal forests at the Burdwood bank slope. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30, 426 - 439. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / aqc. 3265

Williams, G. C. & Alderslade, P. (2011) Three new species of pennatulacean octocorals with the ability to attach to rocky substrata (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Pennatulacea). Zootaxa, 3001 (1), 33 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3001.1.2

PD

Dutch Plant Protection Service, Culture Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

BB

Buffalo Bill Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

SubPhylum

Anthozoa

Class

Anthozoa

SubClass

Octocorallia

Order

Pennatulacea

Family

Anthoptilidae

Genus

Anthoptilum