Two new dimorphic soft-coral species (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from Antarctica

11 pages, 8 figures Sphaeralcyon shackletonisp. nov. and Sphaeralcyon scottisp. nov. are described and illustrated from material collected at the Scotia Sea and Weddell Sea on the Polarstern cruises ANT XIX/3 (ANDEEP-I), ANT XIX/5 (LAMPOS), and ANT XXI/2 (BENDEX). With the discovery of Sphaeralcyon...

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Published in:Hydrobiologia
Main Authors: López-González, Pablo J., Gili, Josep Maria
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Springer 2005
Subjects:
Cnidaria
Octocorallia
Alcyoniidae
Antarctica
Sphaeralcyon
Scotia Sea
Southern Ocean
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/134450
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-004-8338-6
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Summary:11 pages, 8 figures Sphaeralcyon shackletonisp. nov. and Sphaeralcyon scottisp. nov. are described and illustrated from material collected at the Scotia Sea and Weddell Sea on the Polarstern cruises ANT XIX/3 (ANDEEP-I), ANT XIX/5 (LAMPOS), and ANT XXI/2 (BENDEX). With the discovery of Sphaeralcyon shackletoni and S. scotti, three species are now known in the genus Sphaeralcyon, all them reported from the Southern Ocean. The diagnosis of the genus has been slightly modified to accommodate some of the characters of the new species. © Springer 2005 Support for this work was provided by the Spanish CICYT projects REN2001-4269-E/ANT, REN2001-4929-E/ANT, and REN2003-04236 Peer Reviewed

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