Black corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia): first records and a new species from the Brazilian coast

 

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Author: Echeverría, Carlos Alejandro
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2002
Description:A new species, C irripathes secchini (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the Abrolhos area (Bahia, Brazil) is described and constitutes the first record to this genus from Brazil. Two other species ( Antipathes hirta, first record from the Southwestern Atlantic; and Antipathes fernandezi, first record from the Atlantic Ocean) are compared to the most recent redescriptions and new data on the size distribution of the characters is provided. To the present there are only two records of the order Antipatharia from Brazil
Country:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/16626
Online Access:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/16626
Keyword:corals
cirripathes secchini n. sp.
antipathes hirta
antipathes fernandezi
Brazil