Stylasteridae

• Main Authors: Amaral, Fernanda M. D., Steiner, Andrea Q., Broadhurst, Matt K., Cairns, Stephen D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Anthoathecata; Stylasteridae; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5616269; https://zenodo.org/record/5616269

The Stylasteridae Stylasterids occur worldwide at depths from the intertidal to almost 2800 m, although most species are found between 200 and 700 m. Of the 42 species known from the western Atlantic (Cairns 1986), only one is recorded for shallow-water, Stylaster roseus (Pallas 1766), which has a wide geographic range from the Bahamas to the state of Bahia (Brazil) and is the only species positively identified for the Brazilian coast. Nevertheless, a second stylasterid, Stylaster duchassaingi De Pourtalès, 1867, was recorded off the coast of Brazil: first by Rathbun (1879) and then by Mosely (1881), in a report on stylasterids collected aboard the Challenger. Almost a century later, Laborel (1970) reported that a specimen was observed off the northeastern coast, in the state of Pernambuco and Hetzel & Castro (1994) to the Southern state of Bahia. However, as other occurrences were never recorded, we believe that these specimens were in fact Stylaster roseus. : Published as part of Amaral, Fernanda M. D., Steiner, Andrea Q., Broadhurst, Matt K. & Cairns, Stephen D., 2008, An overview of the shallow-water calcified hydroids from Brazil (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria), including the description of a new species, pp. 56-68 in Zootaxa 1930 on page 66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184834 : {"references": ["Cairns, S. D. (1986) A Revision of the Northwest Atlantic Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 418, 1 - 131.", "Rathbun, R. (1879) Brazilian corals and coral reefs. American Naturalist, 13, 539 - 551.", "Moseley, H. N. (1881) Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H. M. Challenger, in the years 1873 - 1876. Part 1: On Hydrocorallinae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Challenger, Zoology, 2, 1 - 101, 209 - 230.", "Laborel, J. (1970) Madreporaires et hydrocoralliaires recifaux gives cotes bresiliennes. Systematique, ecologie, repartition verticale et geographique. Resultates Scientifiques des Campagnes de la \" Calypso \", 9, 171 - 229.", "Hetzel, B. & Castro, C. B. (1994) Corais do Sul da Bahia. Nova Fronteira, Sao Paulo, 189 pp."]}