Thouarella (Epithouarella) chilensis Kukenthal 1908

• Main Authors: Schejter, L., Genzano, G., Pérez, C. D., Acuña, F., Cordeiro, R. T. S., Silva, R. A., Garese, A., Bremec, C. S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Primnoidae; Thouarella; Thouarella chilensis; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Sandwich Islands; Indian; Weddell; Argentina; Burdwood Bank; Acuña; Iquique; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4425951; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4425951

Thouarella (Epithouarella) chilensis Kükenthal, 1908 Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 12; St. 13; St. 23; St. 26; St. 35; St. 36; St. 39; St. 40. Distribution: Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (54°34′S, 65°50′W, 118 m) (as T. antarctica) (Cairns & Bayer 2009); Iquique, Chile (Kükenthal 1919, as T. (Epithouarella) chilensis); Crozet Island, sub-Antarctic (46˚5’S, 51˚52’E, 1005 m), Sandwich Islands (56˚44’17”S, 26˚58’36”W, 302–375 m), Estados (54˚34’S, 64˚00’W, 84 m), Indian Ocean (53°18’S, 73°19’E, 250 m), Weddell Sea (71°05.9’S, 12°34’W, 522–531 m), Patagonian Shelf (40˚57’S, 56˚52’W, 200 m), Burdwood bank (52°59’S, 44°22.7’E, 295– 325 m) (Taylor et al. 2013; Schejter et al. 2016a); off Staten Is., Burdwood bank (125–681 m) (present study). Remarks: Synonyms at the area: Thouarella antarctica sensu Cairns & Bayer 2009 (= T. chilensis). As for most of Antactic primnoids, available information about T. chilensis is still limited to taxonomic works; a complete list of all these studies is given by Taylor et al. (2013), which recorded this species at the Burdwood bank area for the first time. 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 225, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4424884