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Thouarella (Epithouarella) viridis Zapata-Guardiola & Lopez-Gonzalez 2010

  • 1. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP). Paseo Victoria Ocampo 1, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Mar del Plata, Argentina. & schejter @ inidep. edu. ar, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5443 - 4048
  • 2. genzano @ mdp. edu. ar; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9818 - 7648
  • 3. Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Rua Alto do Reservatório s / n, Bela Vista, CEP: 55608 - 680, Vitória de Santo Antão-PE, Brazil. & carlos. perez @ ufpe. br, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0866 - 1183
  • 4. Estación Científica Coiba (Coiba-AIP), Clayton, Panamá, República de Panamá.
  • 5. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manuel de Medeiros, s / n, Dois Irmãos, CEP: 52171 - 900, Recife / PE, Brazil. & Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA ralfts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3164 - 5333
  • 6. Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Rua Alto do Reservatório s / n, Bela Vista, CEP: 55608 - 680, Vitória de Santo Antão-PE, Brazil.

Description

Thouarella (Epithouarella) viridis Zapata-Guardiola & Lopez-González, 2010

Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 18.

Distribution: From South Georgia Island area (53º23’S, 42º42´W, 312–321 m; 54º24´S, 35º36´W, 278–279 m) and south east of Malvinas Islands, Burdwood bank (54°30´S, 56°08´W, 286–291 m) (Zapata Guardiola & López-González 2010a); Sars Seamount (59°42´S, 68°49´W, 520 m); Shackleton Fracture Zone (59°19.5S, 60°06.25W, 2295 m), off Cape Horn (57°00.33S, 67°35.1W, 450 m, 57°13.81S, 67°02.32W, 1100 m); Burdwood bank (54°31´S, 62°11´W, 330 m); Elephant Island (61°15´S, 56°24´W, 450 m) (as Thouarella cf. viridis) (Auscavitch & Waller 2017); South Georgia (54˚30’S, 39˚20’W, 659– 686 m), Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (54˚22’S, 64˚42’W, 106–110 m), Patagonian Shelf (42˚52’S, 58˚38’W, 1200 m), Malvinas Islands (52˚40’S, 60˚39’W, 405 m), Burdwood bank (54˚57’S, 56˚54’W, 500 m) (Taylor et al. 2013); Burdwood bank (607 m) (present study).

Remarks: Zapata Guardiola & López-González (2010a) pointed that T. viridis resembles polyps of the genus Amphilaphis due to the prominent apical keel on the inner surface of the opercular scales. However, the branching pattern and the reduction in size of the basal body scales allocate this species among the Thouarella species, in which the presence of keels on the inner surface of operculars has been also documented.

Notes

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

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  • Auscavitch, S. & Waller, R. (2017) Biogeographical patterns among deep sea megbenthic communities across the Drake Passage. Antarctic Science, 29 (6), 531 - 543. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0954102017000256
  • Taylor, M. L., Cairns, S. D., Agnew, D. & Rogers, A. D. (2013) A revision of the genus Thouarella Gray, 1870 (Octocorallia: Primnoidae), including an illustrated dichotomous key, a new species description, and comments on Plumarella Gray, 1870 and Dasystenella, Versluys, 1906. Zootaxa, 3602 (1), 1 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3602.1.1