Caryophyllia antarctica Marenzeller 1904 ...

• Main Authors: Cairns, Stephen D., Polonio, Virginia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae; Caryophyllia; Caryophyllia antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Bouvet Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151595; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6151595

Caryophyllia antarctica Marenzeller, 1904 Figs. 2 D–E, 6 Caryophyllia antarctica Marenzeller, 1904: 293 –294, pl. 16, figs. 7, 7d.—Squires, 1969: 16, 17, pl. 6, map 1.—Cairns, 1982: 15–16, pl. 3, figs. 7–9, pl. 4, figs. 1–4, map 3 (re-description, complete synonymy); 1990: 33–34, figs. 8–9.—Kitahara, Cairns & Miller, 2010: 114 (key). Remarks. This species is relatively well known, and was re-described from abundant material by Cairns (1982, 1990). Despite its location, the specimens reported herein are entirely consistent with the known species. They have four complete cycles of septa, the inner edges of their S3 and P3 being quite sinuous, each of these elements having oblique rows or ridges of rectangular-shaped granules on their faces. The fossa is quite shallow and the columella is well developed. Distribution. The distribution of C. antarctica was stated to be exclusively Antarctic, with the northernmost records being at South Georgia and Bouvet Island (Cairns 1982), and thus these records are range ... : Published as part of Cairns, Stephen D. & Polonio, Virginia, 2013, New records of deep-water Scleractinia off Argentina and the Falkland Islands in Zootaxa 3691 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/222205 ...