Chrysogorgia elegans ( Verrill, 1883 )

Cordeiro, Ralf T. S., Castro, Clovis B. & Pérez, Carlos D., 2015, Deep-water octocorals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from Brazil: Family Chrysogorgiidae Verrill, 1883, Zootaxa 4058 (1), pp. 81-100 : 85

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.4

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5626189

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scientific name

Chrysogorgia elegans ( Verrill, 1883 )
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Chrysogorgia elegans ( Verrill, 1883) View in CoL

( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 G)

Dasygorgia elegans Verrill, 1883: 23 View in CoL .

Dasygorgia spiculosa Verrill, 1883: 23 View in CoL –24 (in part: BL-44, 1 of 2 specimens; BL-195, 1 of 2 specimens; BL-205, 1 specimen)

Dasygorgia spiculosa: Wright & Studer, 1889: 9 View in CoL –10, Pl. 4, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 , Pl. 5, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 .

Chrysogorgia affinis Versluys, 1902: 47 View in CoL –48, figs. 64–65.— Kükenthal, 1919: 521; 1924: 396.— Deichman, 1936: 221 –222.— Bayer, 1959: 29.

Chrysogorgia elegans: Versluys, 1902: 61 View in CoL .—not Nutting, 1908: 590.— Kükenthal, 1919: 533, Fig. 234; 1924: 405.— Deichman, 1936: 231 –232, in part: Pl. 23, Figs. 53–59: BL-44 (in part), BL-195 (in part), BL-205, BL283; not Pl. 33, Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 (= C. spiculosa ).— Bayer, 1952: 189; 1954: 280 (listed); 1956: F216, Fig. 155, 3a-c, 158,6; 1958: 389, 390 (listed).— Grygier, 1984: 143 (Oregon-548).— Grygier, 1990: 667.— Cairns, 2001: 760 -764 (synonymy), Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4 View FIGURE 4 .— Silva & Pérez, 2002: 18, Tab. 1 View TABLE 1 .— Lumsden et al. 2007: 188, 305, 352.— Cairns & Bayer, 2009: 329.— Chacón-Gómez et al., 2010: 438 - 441, Figs. 6 View FIGURE 6 and 7 View FIGURE 7 .— Chacón-Gómez et al., 2012: 204, Tab. 2 View TABLE 2 .

Chrysogorgia agassizii: Deichmann, 1936 View in CoL : in part (pl. 34, figs. 1–2).

Chrysogorgia View in CoL sp. Grygier, 1984: 143 (P-781); Castro et al., 2006: 170 (in part: MNRJ 4189 and MNRJ 4211)

Types: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, MCZ 4860

Type locality: 13°05’05”N, 59°40’50”W (west coast of Barbados), 433 m depth. Other paralectotypes, see Cairns, 2001.

New records: MNRJ 4189, 13°24'58"S, 38°38'16"W, 727–801 m (3 fragments); MNRJ 4211, 13°24'58"S, 38°38'16"W, 727–801 m (3 colonies); MNRJ 5966, REVIZEE Bahia (Thalassa RV), unknown depth (1 colony); MNRJ 6785, 20°00’01”S, 38°22’03”W (Besnard Bank, Brazil), 666 m depth, one colony.

Diagnosis (based on Cairns, 2001): Colony bottlebrush, wiry, up to 16 cm in height, with branching sequence 2/5R and a rhizoidal holdfast. Distance between branches is 1.0– 1.5 mm and orthostiche interval between 7.0 and 7.5 mm. First internode from 6 to 8 mm long, with usually one polyp. Presence of 1–3 internodes per branch, usually 2. Body wall of polyps and tentacular sclerites with rotund rods longitudinally arranged, 0.44–0.65 in length. Coenenchymal scales up to 0.65 mm long. Pinnular and distal tentacle sclerites rectangular to mediallyconstricted scales 0.12–0.20 mm in greater length and 0.0– 0.05 mm in width and with faces sparsely ornamented and edges finely serrate.

Remarks: The description given by Cairns (2001) dispenses additional comments on Brazilian specimens, once the author had considered the synonym C. affinis Versluys, 1902 , previously reported to Brazil, after examining the holotype. The specimens examined herein shows no discrepancies with the descriptions of specimens examined by Cairns (2001). The previously known distribution of the species in Brazil was limited to the coast of Pernambuco State (09°05’S, 34°50´W). In this study, the latitudinal distribution is expanded about 1250 km to the south (20°00’S).

Cairns (2001) refers to the records of C. elegans in the eastern Atlantic mentioned by Thomson, 1972 (as C. flexilis ), Tixier-Durivault & d´Hondt, 1974, and Grasshoff, 1986 (off Azores, Cape Verde, Bay of Biscay and off Morocco) as doubtful because “none of the specimens on which these reports were based was illustrated or described, nor have I examined them.” Therefore, these localities are not in the “distribution” range indicated here.

Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean: Northern Gulf of Mexico, Little Bahama Bank, southeastern Caribbean throughout Lesser Antilles to border of Colombia and Panama, and off Pernambuco to Espirito Santo States, Brazil. Eastern Atlantic? ( Cairns, 2001; Cairns & Bayer, 2009; Chacón-Gómez et al., 2012; present study); 128– 1716 m depth.

MNRJ

Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Chrysogorgiidae

Genus

Chrysogorgia

Loc

Chrysogorgia elegans ( Verrill, 1883 )

Cordeiro, Ralf T. S., Castro, Clovis B. & Pérez, Carlos D. 2015
2015
Loc

Chrysogorgia

Castro 2006: 170
Grygier 1984: 143
1984
Loc

Chrysogorgia affinis

Deichman 1936: 221
Kukenthal 1919: 521
1919
Loc

Chrysogorgia elegans:

Chacon-Gomez 2012: 204
Chacon-Gomez 2010: 438
Cairns 2009: 329
Lumsden 2007: 188
Silva 2002: 18
Cairns 2001: 760
Grygier 1990: 667
Grygier 1984: 143
Bayer 1952: 189
Deichman 1936: 231
Kukenthal 1919: 533
Nutting 1908: 590
1908
Loc

Dasygorgia spiculosa:

Wright 1889: 9
1889
Loc

Dasygorgia elegans

Verrill 1883: 23
1883
Loc

Dasygorgia spiculosa

Verrill 1883: 23
1883
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