Plumapathes fernandezi ( Pourtalès, 1874 )

Lima, Manuela M., Cordeiro, Ralf T. S. & Perez, Carlos D., 2019, Black Corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 4692 (1), pp. 1-67 : 36

Plumapathes fernandezi ( Pourtalès, 1874)

Fig. 35

Antipathes fernandezii Pourtalès, 1874: 47 ; Pourtalès, 1880: pl. 3, fig. 20.

Parantipathes? fernandezi: Brook, 1889: 144 ; Looser, 1926: 272, fig. 38.

Antipathes fernandezi: Opresko, 1972: 972–975 , fig. 4; Opresko, 2001: 362; Echeverría, 2002: 1075–1076.

Plumapathes fernandezi: Opresko, 2001 a: 362 –363; Loiola, 2007: 257.

Type and type locality: MCZ ANTI–25 (lectotype) and MCZ 139943 (paralectotype): Juan Fernández Archipelago , off Chile, between 118 and 402 m.

Diagnosis. Branched colony, usually in a plane; main axis and branches pinnulate; single and bilateral pinnules, arranged alternately along the length of the axis; interpinnular distance of 2–4 mm. Spines smooth, compressed and ensiform on the pinnules; long, conical and acute on the branches and main axis; slightly larger on the side of the axis that carries the polyps; arranged in eight longitudinal rows; 55–60 per centimeter in each row. Small polyps, 1.0 mm in length and 0.2–0.5 mm apart from each other; in a single row and restricted to one side of the corallum ( Opresko, 1972).

Distribution. Juan Fernandez Archipelago, off Chile ( Pourtalès, 1874; Opresko, 1972) and off Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (fig. 35) ( Echeverría, 2002); from 118 m to 402 m depths ( Pourtalès, 1874).

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FIGURE 35. Geographic distribution of antipatharians species occurring in the Southwestern Atlantic not analyzed in the present work.