Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer, 1889

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 : 219

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4425902

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scientific name

Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer, 1889
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Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer, 1889 View in CoL

Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 23.

Distribution: As A. paessleri May, 1899 ( Verseveldt & Ofwegen 1992): off Río de la Plata (38°06’S, 55°13’W; 440–480 m) ( Castro 1990); Buenos Aires (38°58’S, 55°17’W; 595–642 m), Patagonia (44°19’S, 59°52’W; 183–366 m), (47°09’S, 60°38’W; 424–428 m), Strait of Magellan (150 m) ( Verseveldt 1967); Chile ( May 1899); South Georgia Islands ( Pérez & Zamponi 2004); Seymour Island (150 m) (Antarctic Peninsula) (Molan- der 1929). As A. antarcticum: Hear Island ( Australia) (135m), off South Georgia (54°21’S, 35°58’W, 144–164 m) and Cape Armitage, Ross Island, Antarctica ( Wright & Studer 1889; Verseveldt & Ofwegen 1992); Franklin Island (76°10’S, 168°30’E, 79 m) (Ross Sea) ( Hickson 1902); off Mt. Erebus (Ross Sea) (328 m), Ross Sea (42–407 m) ( Hickson 1907); Burdwood bank ( Molander 1929; present study). This is the first record at MPA Namuncurá I, Burdwood bank.

Remarks: Colonies of A. antarcticum examined are similar to A. sollasi in growth form, but differ in having capstans sparsely tuberculate and tentacle bases without clubs.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Alcyoniidae

Genus

Alcyonium

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