Primnoella scotiae Thomson & Ritchie, 1906

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), Zootaxa 4878 (2), pp. 201-239 : 224

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scientific name	Primnoella scotiae Thomson & Ritchie, 1906
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Primnoella scotiae Thomson & Ritchie, 1906 View in CoL

Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 12; St. 13; St. 21; St. 28; St. 23; St. 26; St. 27; St. 32; St. 34; St. 38; St. 40. PD BB 2017: St. 5; St. 14; St. 16; St. 21; St. 23; St. 28; St. 30; St. 34; St. 35. GARCÍA 2015: St. 17bis ( Fig. 2I View FIGURE 2 ) (MACN-In: 43505, 43506, 43507, 43508, 43509, 43510, 43511, 43512).

Distribution: Mar del Plata (37º36’S, 54º46’W, 740 m) ( Argentina) ( Tixier-Durivault 1969 –70 as Primnoella compressa ); off of Río de la Plata ( Uruguay) (35°30’S, 52°50’W, 35°03’S, 52°45’W, 196–263 m) and Tierra del Fuego ( Argentina) (54°23’S, 65°42’W, 164 m) ( Pérez & Zamponi 2004 as P. compressa ); Burdwood bank (54°25’S, 57°32’W, 95 m) ( Thomson & Ritchie 1906); Iquique, Chile ( Kükenthal 1919, as P. compressa ); South Orkney Islands (60°14’30”S, 45°13’80”W, 8–12 m) ( Peck & Brockington 2013); Off Chubut, Argentina ( Patiño Cano 2013); off Staten Is., Burdwood bank (90–785 m) (present study).

Remarks: A recent study included this species in the feeding preferences of the nudibranch Tritonia odhneri ( García-Matucheski & Muniain 2011) ; a second had addressed its growth and included it as prey for the sea anemone Dactylanthus antarcticus ( Peck & Brockington 2013) . Several colonies presented epibionts like hydroids, bryozoans and ophiuroids. It was frequent in several stations of the current study and it is likely to be among those forming recently found pristine gorgonian habitats in Antarctic continental shelf ( Ambroso et al. 2017; Schejter et al. 2020).

References

Ambroso, S., Salazar, J., Zapata-Guardiola, R., Federwisch, L., Richter, C., Gili, J. M. & Teixido, N. (2017) Pristine populations of habitat forming gorgonian species on the Antarctic continental shelf. Scientific Reports, 7, 12251. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / s 41598 - 017 - 12427 - y.

Garcia-Matucheski, S. & Muniain, C. (2011) Predation by the nudibranch Tritonia odhneri (Opisthobranchia: Tritoniidae) on octocorals from the South Atlantic Ocean. Marine Biodiversity, 41, 287 - 297. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 010 - 0063 - y

Kukenthal, W. (1919) Gorgonaria. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Tiefsee-Expedition Valdivia, 13 (2), 1 - 946.

Patino Cano, L. P. (2013) Aislamiento y elucidacion estructural de metabolitos secundarios a partir de esponjas, corales, tunicados y briozoos del Atlantico sur y la Antartida. PhD Thesis, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 304 pp.

Peck, L. S. & Brockington, S. (2013) Growth of the Antarctic octocoral Primnoella scotiae and predation by the anemone Dactylanthus antarcticus. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 92, 73 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr 2.2013.01.024

Perez, C. D. & Zamponi, M. O. (2004) New records of octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Zoogeographic considerations. Zootaxa, 630, 1 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 630.1.1

Schejter, L., Genzano, G., Gaitan, E., Perez, C. D. & Bremec, C. S. (2020) Benthic communities in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean: Conservation value of animal forests at the Burdwood bank slope. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30, 426 - 439. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / aqc. 3265

Thomson, J. A. & Ritchie, J. (1906) The Alcyonarians of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 41 (3), 851 - 860.

Tixier-Durivault, A. (1969 - 70) Octocoralliaires. Campagne de la Calypso au large des cotes atlantiques de l'Amerique du Sud (1961 - 1962). Annales de L'Institut Oceanographic, Monaco, 47, 145 - 169.