Desmophyllum dianthus Esper 1794

• Main Authors: Cairns, Stephen D., Polonio, Virginia
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae; Desmophyllum; Desmophyllum dianthus; Gardiner; Pacific; Patagonia; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6151607; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151607

Desmophyllum dianthus (Esper, 1794) Figs. 3 H–I, 4 I, 12 Madrepora dianthus Esper, 1794: pl. 69, figs. 1–3. Desmophyllum cristagalli Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: 253, pl. 7, figs. 10, 10 a.—Squires, 1969: 17, pl. 6, map 1.—Cairns, 1982: 29–30, pl. 8, figs. 9–12, pl. 9, figs. 1–3, map 6 (synonymy); 1990: 43–44, fig. 15. Desmophyllum ingens Moseley, 1881: 160 –162, pl. 4, figs. 1–6, pl. 5, figs. 1–4 a.—Squires, 1969: 17, pl. 6, map 1. Desmophyllum capense Gardiner, 1904: 96 –97. Desmophyllum cristagalli forma capense: Cairns, 1982: 29. Desmophyllum dianthus: Cairns, 1994: 26 –27, pl. 9 a–d (synonymy, neotype designation).—Cairns et al., 2005: 36–39, figs. 5 A–E, 6 F–H, 7.—Kitahara, 2007, 502, 503 (listed).—Kitahara et al., 2009: 228 (listed). Remarks. This is an extremely commonly collected deep-water coral, having been described and illustrated many times (see synonymy). Most of the specimens reported herein are of the typical form (see Cairns 1982), but one is of the capense form (PAT0108DR 11, Fig. 4 I), that specimen having 116 septa, or 10 pairs of S 6. The largest specimen (PAT0209DR 9) is 55.9 x 41.2 mm in CD. Distribution. Desmophyllum dianthus is one of about a dozen cosmopolitan species of Scleractinia, occurring everywhere but off continental Antarctica, at depths ranging from 8–2460 m (Roberts et al. 2009: www.lophelia.org/coldwatercoralsbook). It has been previously reported from both Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Patagonia (Cairns 1982, Cairns et al. 2005). The newly reported Argentinean records range from 733–1629 m and occur throughout the study area (Fig. 12). Material. PAT0108DR 11, 2, USNM 1192954; PAT 1008 DR 1, 1, USNM 1192956; PAT 1008 DR 4, 2, MNCN, and 1, USNM 1192957; PAT 1008 DR 6, 1, USNM 1192953; PAT 1208 DR 4, 1, MNCN; PAT0209DR 7, 1, USNM 1192950; PAT0209DR 8, 1, MNCN; PAT0209DR 9, 2, MNCN, and 1, USNM 1192952; PAT0209DR 10, 1, USNM 1192955; PAT0209DR 11, 1, USNM 1192949; PAT0209DR 15, 3, MNCN; PAT0209DR 16, 3, MNCN, and 1, USNM 1192951; ATL08Lo 14, 1, MNCN. Published as part ...