Plumapathes fernandezi ( Pourtalès, 1874 )

Lima, Manuela M., Cordeiro, Ralf T. S. & Perez, Carlos D., 2019, Black Corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 4692 (1), pp. 1-67 : 36

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Plumapathes fernandezi ( Pourtalès, 1874) View in CoL

Fig. 35 View FIGURE 35

Antipathes fernandezii Pourtalès, 1874: 47 ; Pourtalès, 1880: pl. 3, fig. 20.

Parantipathes? fernandezi: Brook, 1889: 144 ; Looser, 1926: 272, fig. 38.

Antipathes fernandezi: Opresko, 1972: 972–975 , fig. 4; Opresko, 2001: 362; Echeverría, 2002: 1075–1076.

Plumapathes fernandezi: Opresko, 2001 a: 362 View in CoL –363; Loiola, 2007: 257.

Type and type locality: MCZ ANTI–25 (lectotype) and MCZ 139943 About MCZ (paralectotype): Juan Fernández Archipelago , off Chile, between 118 and 402 m.

Diagnosis. Branched colony, usually in a plane; main axis and branches pinnulate; single and bilateral pinnules, arranged alternately along the length of the axis; interpinnular distance of 2–4 mm. Spines smooth, compressed and ensiform on the pinnules; long, conical and acute on the branches and main axis; slightly larger on the side of the axis that carries the polyps; arranged in eight longitudinal rows; 55–60 per centimeter in each row. Small polyps, 1.0 mm in length and 0.2–0.5 mm apart from each other; in a single row and restricted to one side of the corallum ( Opresko, 1972).

Distribution. Juan Fernandez Archipelago, off Chile ( Pourtalès, 1874; Opresko, 1972) and off Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (fig. 35) ( Echeverría, 2002); from 118 m to 402 m depths ( Pourtalès, 1874).

References

Brook, G. (1889) Report on the Antipatharia collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Zoology, 32, 1.

Echeverria, C. A. (2002) Black corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia): first records and a new species from the Brazilian coast. Revista de biologia tropical, 50 (3), 1067 - 1077.

Loiola, L. L. (2007) Black corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from Brazil: an overview. Bulletin of Marine Science, 81 (3), 253 - 264.

Opresko, D. M. (1972) Biological results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions. 97. Redescriptions and reevaluations of the antipatharians described by LF de Pourtales. Bulletin of Marine Science, 22 (4), 950 - 1017.

Opresko, D. M. (2001) Revision of theAntipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part I. Establishment of a new family, Myriopathidae. Zoologische Mededelingen, 75, 343 - 370.

Pourtales, L. D. (1874) Zoological results of the Hassler expedition. Deep-sea corals. Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 8, 33 - 49. [not consulted]

Pourtales, L. F. (1880) Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Caribbean Sea, 1878 - 79, by the United States coast survey steamer Blake . VI. Report on the corals and Antipatharia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 6 (4), 95 - 120.