Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer 1889

• Main Authors: Schejter, L., Genzano, G., Pérez, C. D., Acuña, F., Cordeiro, R. T. S., Silva, R. A., Garese, A., Bremec, C. S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Alcyoniidae; Alcyonium; Alcyonium antarcticum; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ross Sea; Patagonia; Ross Island; Seymour; Seymour Island; Perez; Burdwood Bank; Armitage; Friederichsen; Cape Armitage; Acuña; Franklin Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4425902; https://zenodo.org/record/4425902

Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer, 1889 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. : Published as part of 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), pp. 201-239 in Zootaxa 4878 (2) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4424884 : {"references": ["Wright, E. P. & Studer, T. (1889) Report onthe Alcyonaria collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, Zoology, 31, 1 - 314.", "May, W. (1899) Alcyonarien. In: Hamburger Magalhaensische Sammelreise, Friederichsen, L. & Co., Hamburg, pp. 1 - 22.", "Verseveldt, J. & Ofwegen, L. P. (1992) New and redescribed species of Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758 (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden, 66 (7), 155 - 181.", "Castro, C. B. (1990) Revisao dos Octocorallia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) do litoral Sul-Americano: da foz do Rio Amazonas a foz do Rio da Prata. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 343 pp.", "Verseveldt, J. (1967) The Octocorallia collected by R / V \" Vema \" in the Atlantic Ocean. American Museum Novitates, 2282, 1 - 19.", "Perez, C. D. & Zamponi, M. O. (2004) New records of octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Zoogeographic considerations. Zootaxa, 630, 1 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 630.1.1", "Hickson, S. J. (1902) Alcyonium paessleri. Report on the collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the \" Southern Cross \", London, 293 pp.", "Hickson, S. J. (1907) Coelentera I. Alcyonaria. National Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition, Natural History, 3, 1 - 15.", "Molander, A. R. (1929) Die Octactinarien. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903, 2 (2), 1 - 86, figs. 1 - 27, pls. 1 - 5."]}