Pachycerianthus curacaoensis den Hartog, 1977

Stampar, Sergio N., Reimer, James D., Maronna, Maximiliano M., Lopes, Celine S. S., Ceriello, Hellen, Santos, Thais B., Acuna, Fabian H. & Morandini, Andre C., 2020, Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the World: an annotated catalogue and key to species, ZooKeys 952, pp. 1-63 : 1

28 Pachycerianthus curacaoensis den Hartog, 1977

Pachycerianthus curacaoensis den Hartog, 1977: 215-221, 237; Carter 1995: 6; Molodtsova 2000: 15, 17; Stampar et al. 2014b: 344, 345, 350, 353

Type locality.

Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean.

Distribution.

Caribbean Sea ( Curaçao), at 65-75 m depth.

Remarks.

This species was described by den Hartog (1977) based on specimens from Curaçao. The description of this species is fairly detailed and includes a wide range of biological and morphological information. This is the only species of this genus in the Caribbean Sea and it shows no morphological similarity to congeners described from the Pacific Ocean. On the other hand, this species shares some characters with P. schlenzae , which was described from the South Atlantic ( Stampar et al. 2014b). Thus, the evolutionary correlation of these two species is of biogeographical relevance.

Type material.

Naturalis Biodiversity Center (former Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden - RMNH.COEL.11359 (holotype).