Checklist of Benthic Cnidaria in the SW Atlantic Ocean (54 ºS- 56 ºS) Author Schejter, L. 0000-0001-5443-4048 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 Author Genzano, G. 0000-0002-9818-7648 genzano @ mdp. edu. ar; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9818 - 7648 genzano@mdp.edu.ar Author Pérez, C. D. 0000-0002-0866-1183 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 Author Acuña, F. Estación Científica Coiba (Coiba-AIP), Clayton, Panamá, República de Panamá. Author Cordeiro, R. T. S. 0000-0002-3164-5333 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 ralfts@gmail.com Author Silva, R. A. 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. Author Garese, A. Author Bremec, C. S. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-13 4878 2 201 239 journal article 7936 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.1 b10a81a2-3936-425a-92b6-9e52fd7be1e7 1175-5326 4424884 F930E674-DDA9-4EC9-B0E9-3891B239C6CF Family Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 Material collected: BBB 2016: St. 5; St. 9; St. 11; St. 12; St. 13; St. 16; St. 18; St. 21; St. 23; St. 25; St. 28; St. 29; St. 30; St. 33; St. 34; St. 35; St. 36; St. 40. Distribution: Seventeen stylasterid species are known to inhabit usually deep waters of the Argentinian shelf and slopes. The majority of them have been also recorded in the Burdwood bank region, but also other subantarctic waters. Specific information could be obtained from Cairns (1983) and Bernal et al . (2018) . Remarks: Living and dead fragments of stylasterid colonies were collected. The material was not identified until species level yet. However, preliminary results showed that many collected specimens belong to the genus Errina , Errinopsis and Sporadopora . Epibiotic organisms were frequently attached to these colonies, as also noted by Schejter et al . (2017a , 2020). Moreover, they were conspicuous habitat-forming species of the animal forests recorded in the area ( Schejter et al . 2020 ).