Bathelia candida Moseley 1881

• Main Authors: Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena, Försterra, Günter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Oculinidae; Bathelia; Bathelia candida; Antarctic; Argentina; Baja; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5049425; https://zenodo.org/record/5049425

Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881 Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881: 177–178, pl. 8, figs. 1–6. — Cairns, 1982: 13, pl. 3, figs. 1–3, map 1. — Piñón, 1999: 20, 80 (listed). Remarks . —This species is known from only one record off Chile: 47°01'S, 75°44'W (off Península Tres Montes) at 1146 m, although additional specimens are known from off southern South America from Rio Grande, Brazil to Cabo Tres Puntas, Argentina at depths of 500–1250 m (Cairns 1982). It is characterized as having a colony with large (up to 1 cm in CD) sympodially arranged corallites, a fascicular columella, four cycles of septa and one crown of 12 P3, and occasionally intratentacular budding. : Published as part of Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2005, A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species, pp. 15-46 in Zootaxa 1018 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1018.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5049374 : {"references": ["Moseley, H. N. (1881) Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, in the years 1873 - 1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the Years 1873 - 76, Zoology, 2, 248 pp., 32 pls. in three series, 17 figs.", "Cairns, S. D. (1982) Antarctic and Subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series, 34 (1), 74 pp., 18 pls., 14 maps.", "Pinon, G. C. (1999) Biogeografia de los corales ahermatipicos (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) en el Pacifico oriental. Thesis, Universidad Antonoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, 84 pp."]}