Anthoptilum grandiflorum

• 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; Pennatulacea; Anthoptilidae; Anthoptilum; Anthoptilum grandiflorum; Antarctic; Drake Passage; Canada; Argentina; Argentine; Uruguay; Gonzalez; Lopez; Perez; Cape Horn; Burdwood Bank; Paloma; Acuña; Sars Seamount; Antarc*; Newfoundland; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571029; https://zenodo.org/record/4571029

Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879) Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 13; St. 18; St. 21. PD BB 2017: St. 31; St. 33 (MACN-In: 43488) Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Williams 2011). Some records include: Off Namibia, Africa (23°11.8– 25°7.0’S, 12°51.6’– 13°43.5’E, 267–849 m) (López-González & Gili 2001); Off Newfoundland, Canada (843 m) (Baker et al. 2012); Gulf of Biscaya, 171 m (Grasshoff 1982); Off Oregon, USA (44.00° 28.30’N, 125.00° 13.40’W, 1335–1372 m) (Williams & Alderslade 2011); Aleutian Islands, USA (Heifetz et al. 2005); Sars Seamount (59°42.45’S, 68°49.65’W, 520 m); off Cape Horn (57°00.33’S, 67°35.1’W, 450m) (as Anthoptilum cf. grandiflorum ) (Auscavitch & Waller 2017); La Paloma, Uruguay (35º13’S 52º21’W, 400m) (Castro 1990), off Buenos Aires, Argentina (41°30´S 57°20´W 439 m; 41°24´S 57°10´W 800 m as Pennatula argentina ) (Acuña & Zamponi 1992); Malvinas Is. (52º12’S 56º51’W, 1105 m) (Pasternak 1975); Burdwood bank (Schejter et al . 2018). Remarks: In the present study A. grandiflorum represented 62% of the total catch at St. 33 suggesting the presence of dense meadows at the NW slope of Burdwood bank that may fall within the habitats considered Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (Schejter et al . 2020). Many collected specimens had associated sea anemones of the species Hormathia pectinata (see Schejter et al . 2018). : 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 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4424884 : {"references": ["Lopez-Gonzalez, P. J. & Gili, J. M. (2001) New records of Pennatulacea (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the African Atlantic coast, with description of a new species and a zoogeographic analysis. Scientia Marina, 65 (1), 59 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 2001.65 n 159", "Baker, K. D., Wareham, V. E., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Haedrich, R. L., Fifield, D. A., Edinger, E. N. & Gilkinson, K. D. (2012) Distributional patterns of deep-sea coral assemblages in three submarine canyons off Newfoundland, Canada. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 445, 235 - 249. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 09448", "Grasshoff, M. (1982) Die Gorgonaria, Pennatularia und Antipatharia des Tiefwassers der Biskaya (Cnidaria, Anthozoa). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 4 (3), 941 - 978.", "Williams, G. C. & Alderslade, P. (2011) Three new species of pennatulacean octocorals with the ability to attach to rocky substrata (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Pennatulacea). Zootaxa, 3001 (1), 33 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3001.1.2", "Heifetz, J., Wing, B. L., Stone, R. P., Malecha, P. W. & Courtney, D. L. (2005) Corals of the Aleutian Islands. Fisheries Oceanography, 14, 131 - 138. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2419.2005.00371. x", "Auscavitch, S. & Waller, R. (2017) Biogeographical patterns among deep sea megbenthic communities across the Drake Passage. Antarctic Science, 29 (6), 531 - 543. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0954102017000256", "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.", "Acuna, F. H. & Zamponi, M. O. (1992) Pennatulacea (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) de la region subantartica: nuevos taxa y registros. Iheringia, Serie Zoologia, 73, 47 - 53.", "Pasternak, F. A. (1975) Deep-sea pennatularians genus Umbellula from the Caribbean Sea and Puerto-Rican Trench. In: Scientific studies Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and adjacent waters. Transactions of the P. P. Shirsov Institute of Oceanology, 100, 160 - 173.", "Schejter, L., Acuna, F. H., Garese, A., Cordeiro, R. & Perez, C. D. (2018) Sea pens (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea) from Argentine waters: new distributional records and first report of associated sea anemones. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 13 (4), 292 - 301.", "Schejter, L., Genzano, G., Gaitan, E., Perez, C. D. & Bremec, C. S. (2020) Benthic communities in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean: Conservation value of animal forests at the Burdwood bank slope. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30, 426 - 439. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / aqc. 3265"]}