Errina antarctica (Gray, 1872)

Pica, Daniela, Cairns, Stephen D., Puce, Stefania & Newman, William A., 2015, Southern hemisphere deep-water stylasterid corals including a new species, Errinalabrosa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae), with notes on some symbiotic scalpellids (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Scalpellidae), ZooKeys 472, pp. 1-25 : 4

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scientific name	Errina antarctica (Gray, 1872)
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Anthoathecata Stylasteridae

Errina antarctica (Gray, 1872) View in CoL

Errina antarctica See Cairns (1983a: 83) for synonymy.

Material studied.

BNHM 1977.8.10.20: two colonies, Discovery Expedition, Sta. WS 248, Falkland Islands 52°40'00"S 58°30'00"W, 210-242 m depth, 20 July 1928, (preserved in ethanol); BNHM 1977.8.10.17: five broken colonies, Discovery Expedition, Sta. WS 841, 54°11'S 60°23"W, 200-370 m depth, 6 February 1932 (preserved in ethanol); BNHM 1977.8.10.34: 3 broken colonies and fragments, Discovery Expedition, Sta. WS 85, Falkland Islands, 52°09'00"S 54°14'00"W, 79 m depth, 25 March 1927 (dry).

Remarks.

Within the genus Errina our specimens match Errina antarctica as described by Cairns (1983a) in all aspects of the colony morphology (see remarks of Errina fissurata ).