New records of deep-water Scleractinia off Argentina and the Falkland Islands
Author
Cairns, Stephen D.
Author
Polonio, Virginia
text
Zootaxa
2013
3691
1
journal volume
10.11646/zootaxa.3691.1.2
8aa312d2-5105-4aea-8c40-191f8ea619b3
1175-5326
222205
D25D3DD9-8C09-4F9B-91AB-48853F444756
Crispatotrochus cornu
(Moseley, 1881)
Figs. 2
L–M, 3A–B, 10
Cyathoceras cornu
Moseley, 1881: 156
–157, pl. 4, fig. 7 (in part:
Challenger
320).—Cairns, 1979: 67, pl. 12, figs. 1, 3 (
lectotype
designated).
Crispatotrochus cornu
: Cairns, 1991: 15
.—Kitahara & Cairns, 2008: 63 (key to species in genus).
Remarks.
This species had previously been known from only one specimen, the
lectotype
, which was briefly redescribed and figured by Cairns (1979). Most of the specimens reported herein are all larger than the apparent juvenile
lectotype
and thus afford a greater analysis of variation. The largest corallum (PAT0209DR14) is 23.8 x 20.1 mm in CD, 7.1 mm in PD, and 27.3 mm in height. The range of GCD:LCD is 1.01–1.18; the range of PD:GCD = 0.3–0.4. The theca is white and porcellaneous, with granulation apparent only near the base of the coralla.
As
the corallum get larger, additional pairs of S5 are added, often as outpocketings of the calice, each of which contain several septa, the largest corallum having 80 septa – still not a full fifth cycle. This outpocketing, similar to that of
Desmophyllum dianthus
forma
capense
Gardiner, 1904
, results in an irregular calicular outline (
Fig. 2
L). S1–2 are equal in size, their axial edges usually fused to the fascicular columella. The axial edges of the S1–3 are sinuous, and their faces are undulated, having short, discontinuous oblique ridges along the summit of the undulations composed of rectangular granules. The fossa is relatively shallow and the columella is composed of a variable number of wide, loosely twisted elements.
Distribution.
Continental slope off northern to central
Argentina
(
Fig. 10
), at depths of
586–1629 m
. The specimens reported herein expand the known distribution to the south and increase the known bathymetric range, which was previously only
1097 m
.
Material.
PAT0108DR14, 1, MNCN; PAT0108DR16, 6, MNCN; PAT1108DR4, 8, MNCN; PAT1108DR5, 7, MNCN; PAT1108DR11, 7, MNCN; PAT1208DR11, 1, MNCN; PAT0209DR1, 15, MNCN; PAT0209DR3, 4, MNCN; PAT0209DR4, 29, MNCN, and 1, USNM 1193290; PAT0209DR5, 3, MNCN; PAT0209DR7, 4, MNCN; PAT0209DR8, 16, MNCN; PAT0209DR9, 11, MNCN; PAT0209DR11, 12, MNCN; PAT0209DR12, 7, MNCN; PAT0209DR14, 14, MNCN, and 1, USNM 1193289; PAT0209DR15, 10, MNCN; PAT0209DR16, 23, MNCN, and 1, USNM 1193291; PAT0210DR5, 1, USNM 1193286 and 1193288; PAT0210DR7, 3, MNCN; PAT0210DR9, 7, MNCN; PAT0210BC19, 2, MNCN; ATL09Lo92, 1, USNM 1193287; ATL09Lo100, 1, USNM 1193285; ATL09Lo101, 1, USNM.