Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889

France, Scott C., 2017, A taxonomic review of the genus Acanella (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Isididae) in the North Atlantic Ocean, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4323 (3), pp. 359-390 : 373-374

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6044379

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Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889
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Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889

Figure 8 View FIGURE 8

Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889: 31 , pl. IX, fig 3.

Type: Collected via dredge. Station 301, in the Messier Channel, Patagonia, Chile . 175 fathoms depth. Indicated as deposited in the Natural History Museum, London; however we were not able to verify the location of the type specimen at the time of this publication.

For description see: Wright & Studer 1889

Remarks: The specimens represented by Haplotype C ( Figure 8 View FIGURE 8 ) have 5̄ 7 mm tall polyps with curved, slightly club-shaped sclerites with spine-like projections, which corresponds with the species description of A. chiliensis as described in Wright and Studer (1889). A. chiliensis is the only valid species within the genus that has club-shaped sclerites. Published reports of A. chiliensis appear only once, a collection from the eastern South Pacific (Messier Channel, Patagonia, Chile) at 320 m depth; our samples thus expand the known distribution of the species to the western South Pacific and Indian Ocean (New Zealand-Kermadec [n=5] and Indian [n=1] deep-sea provinces; Watling et al. 2013) and the depth range to 1195 m.

Distribution: South Pacific and Indian Ocean, 320̄ 1195 m depth.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

SubClass

Octocorallia

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Isididae

SubFamily

Keratoisidinae

Genus

Acanella

Loc

Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889

France, Scott C. 2017
2017
Loc

Acanella chiliensis

Wright 1889: 31
1889
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