Bayergorgia vermidoma Williams & Lopez-Gonzalez 2005
Creators
- 1. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP). Paseo Victoria Ocampo 1, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Mar del Plata, Argentina. & schejter @ inidep. edu. ar, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5443 - 4048
- 2. genzano @ mdp. edu. ar; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9818 - 7648
- 3. Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Rua Alto do Reservatório s / n, Bela Vista, CEP: 55608 - 680, Vitória de Santo Antão-PE, Brazil. & carlos. perez @ ufpe. br, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0866 - 1183
- 4. Estación Científica Coiba (Coiba-AIP), Clayton, Panamá, República de Panamá.
- 5. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manuel de Medeiros, s / n, Dois Irmãos, CEP: 52171 - 900, Recife / PE, Brazil. & Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA ralfts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3164 - 5333
- 6. Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Rua Alto do Reservatório s / n, Bela Vista, CEP: 55608 - 680, Vitória de Santo Antão-PE, Brazil.
Description
Bayergorgia vermidoma Williams & Lopez-Gonzalez, 2005
Material examined: BBB 2016: St. 12; St. 13; St. 18; St. 21; St. 23; St. 26; St. 36; St. 38; St. 40. PD BB 2017: St. 14; St. 21; St. 43 (MACN-In: 43486, 43487).
Distribution: Drake Passage (61°26.08’S, 58°06.2’W, 1047–1227 m); Elephant Island, (61°18.14’S, 56°8.27’W, 281.1–288.6 m); Shag Rocks (53°23.59’S, 42°41.78’W, 223.6–307 m) Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Is.; South Georgia Is. (54°29’S, 39°22’W, 659–686 m); South Orkney Is. (60°22’S, 46°50’W, 298–403 m) (Williams & López-González 2005); off Cape Horn (57°00.33’S, 67°35.1’W, 450 m; 57°13.81’S, 67°02.32’W 1100 m); Burdwood bank 54°31´S, 62°11´W 330 m as Clavularia sp. (Schejter et al. 2016a).); Elephant Island (61°15´S, 56°24´W, 450 m) (Auscavitch & Waller 2017); Drake Passage, 57°04´S, 67°30´W, 850 m (Waller & Robinson 2011 as Bayergorgia sp.); off Tierra del Fuego, Burdwood bank (130–785 m) (present study).
Remarks: The original diagnosis of the species does not include branched specimens (Williams & López-González 2005). Although the authors discuss some branched forms, it is unlikely these specimens correspond to a different new species. Besides the presence of branching, we could not find clear boundaries between those two morphotypes either in the specimens examined herein or in specimens from other areas (unpublished data). Thus, we suggest the emendation of the diagnosis of B. vermidoma to include both branched and unbranched forms. Some of the studied specimens presented epibionts, mainly other cnidarians (see Schejter et al. 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Plexauridae
- Genus
- Bayergorgia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Williams & Lopez-Gonzalez
- Species
- vermidoma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bayergorgia vermidoma Williams, 2005 sec. Schejter, Genzano, Pérez, Acuña, Cordeiro, Silva, Garese & Bremec, 2020
References
- Williams, G. C. & Lopez-Gonzalez, P. J. (2005) A new genus and species of gorgonian octocoral (Anthozoa: Plexauridae) from Antarctic waters. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 56 (26), 379 - 390.
- Schejter, L., Rimondino, C., Chiesa, I., Diaz de Astarloa, J. M., Doti, B. L., Elias, R., Escolar, M., Genzano, G., Lopez Gappa, J., Tatian, M., Zelaya, D. G., Cristobo, J., Perez, C. D., Cordeiro, R. T. & Bremec, C. S. (2016 a) Namuncura Marine Protected Area: an oceanic hot spot of benthic biodiversity at Burdwood bank, Argentina. Polar Biology, 39, 2373 - 2386. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 016 - 1913 - 2
- Auscavitch, S. & Waller, R. (2017) Biogeographical patterns among deep sea megbenthic communities across the Drake Passage. Antarctic Science, 29 (6), 531 - 543. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0954102017000256
- 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