Alcyonium antarcticum Wright & Studer 1889
- Dataset
- Checklist of Benthic Cnidaria in the SW Atlantic Ocean (54 ºS- 56 ºS)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Alcyonacea
- family
- Alcyoniidae
- genus
- Alcyonium
- species
- Alcyonium antarcticum
discussion
Remarks: Colonies of A. antarcticum examined are similar to A. sollasi in growth form, but differ in having capstans sparsely tuberculate and tentacle bases without clubs.
distribution
Distribution: As A. paessleri May, 1899 (Verseveldt & Ofwegen 1992): off Río de la Plata (38 ° 06 ’ S, 55 ° 13 ’ W; 440 – 480 m) (Castro 1990); Buenos Aires (38 ° 58 ’ S, 55 ° 17 ’ W; 595 – 642 m), Patagonia (44 ° 19 ’ S, 59 ° 52 ’ W; 183 – 366 m), (47 ° 09 ’ S, 60 ° 38 ’ W; 424 – 428 m), Strait of Magellan (150 m) (Verseveldt 1967); Chile (May 1899); South Georgia Islands (Pérez & Zamponi 2004); Seymour Island (150 m) (Antarctic Peninsula) (Molan- der 1929). As A. antarcticum: Hear Island (Australia) (135 m), off South Georgia (54 ° 21 ’ S, 35 ° 58 ’ W, 144 – 164 m) and Cape Armitage, Ross Island, Antarctica (Wright & Studer 1889; Verseveldt & Ofwegen 1992); Franklin Island (76 ° 10 ’ S, 168 ° 30 ’ E, 79 m) (Ross Sea) (Hickson 1902); off Mt. Erebus (Ross Sea) (328 m), Ross Sea (42 – 407 m) (Hickson 1907); Burdwood bank (Molander 1929; present study). This is the first record at MPA Namuncurá I, Burdwood bank.
materials_examined
Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 23.