Grammaria abietina (M. Sars, 1851)

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 : 209-210

Grammaria abietina (M. Sars, 1851)

Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 9; St. 11; St. 12; St. 27; St. 28; St. 32; St. 34; St. 35; St. 38; St. 39 ( Fig. 2E ) (MACN-In: 43437, 43438, 43439, 43440, 43441, 43442, 43443, 43444, 43445).

Distribution: Boreal region of the Atlantic ( Vervoort 1972). In the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, it was frequently reported in south Patagonian sector and subantarctic islands (50– 54°S) as Grammaria magellanica (see Blanco 1994; Oliveira et al. 2017).

Remarks: Abundant, unfertile and big colonies were widely found in all analyzed areas. Usually, they were found growing on tubes of Chaetopterus antarcticus , a common tubicoulous polychaete found in several Patagonian areas ( Bremec & Schejter 2019).

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FIGURE 2. Recorded distribution of the top #12 most frequently recorded species during the present study. MPAs NI and NII are showed in the map.