A taxonomic review of the genus Acanella (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Isididae) in the North Atlantic Ocean, with descriptions of two new species Author France, Scott C. text Zootaxa 2017 2017-09-22 4323 3 359 390 journal article 32016 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.2 e6ed2164-d69d-41e9-b0c1-814b1b6b967e 1175-5326 919804 282Cfa84-60F8-464A-Acc4-Bfcbbc69F6A9 Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889 Figure 8 Acanella chiliensis Wright & Studer, 1889 : 31 , pl. IX, fig 3. Type : Collected via dredge. Station 301, in the Messier Channel , Patagonia , Chile . 175 fathoms depth. Indicated as deposited in the Natural History Museum, London; however we were not able to verify the location of the type specimen at the time of this publication. For description see: Wright & Studer 1889 Remarks: The specimens represented by Haplotype C ( Figure 8 ) have 5̄ 7 mm tall polyps with curved, slightly club-shaped sclerites with spine-like projections, which corresponds with the species description of A. chiliensis as described in Wright and Studer (1889) . A. chiliensis is the only valid species within the genus that has club-shaped sclerites. Published reports of A. chiliensis appear only once, a collection from the eastern South Pacific (Messier Channel, Patagonia, Chile ) at 320 m depth; our samples thus expand the known distribution of the species to the western South Pacific and Indian Ocean (New Zealand-Kermadec [n=5] and Indian [n=1] deep-sea provinces; Watling et al . 2013 ) and the depth range to 1195 m . Distribution: South Pacific and Indian Ocean, 320̄ 1195 m depth.