A new deep-sea pennatulacean (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chunellidae) from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic)

International audience During the BENGAL cruises, an important collection of deep-sea benthic organisms was sampled. Among the pennatulacean colonies, a previously undescribed species of chunellid was collected. That material is here described as the type species of a new genus, gen. nov. The new ge...

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Published in:Helgoland Marine Research
Main Authors: López-González, Pablo J., Williams, Gary C.
Other Authors: Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos, Departamento de Fisiología y Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2010
Subjects:
North Atlantic
Deep sea
New species
Pennatulacea
Octocoral
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00637077
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00637077/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00637077/file/PEER_stage2_10.1007%252Fs10152-010-0224-1.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-010-0224-1
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Summary:International audience During the BENGAL cruises, an important collection of deep-sea benthic organisms was sampled. Among the pennatulacean colonies, a previously undescribed species of chunellid was collected. That material is here described as the type species of a new genus, gen. nov. The new genus and species are described based on material collected in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic), 4,839-4,847 m in depth. This is the first time that a chunellid is reported from the Atlantic Ocean. The new genus is compared with the other genera in the family, and some phylogenetic remarks about the families Chunellidae and Umbellulidae are also provided.

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