Bathelia candida Moseley 1881
| Main Authors: | Cairns, Stephen D., Polonio, Virginia |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
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, 2013
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6151591 |
Daftar Isi:
- Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881 Figs. 1 B, 2 A–C, 5 Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881: 177 –178, pl. 8, figs. 1–6.—Cairns, 1982: 13, pl. 3, figs. 1–3, Map 1 (re-description and illustrations).—Kitahara & Cairns, 2005: fig. 2 E.—Kitahara, 2007: 500, 501 (listed).—Kitahara et al., 2009: 228 (listed). Remarks. The species was well described by Cairns (1982). The uncommon asexual reproduction mode of distomadeal intratentacular budding, alluded to by Cairns (1982), is illustrated herein (Fig. 2 A). Septa of the four cycles are virtually indistinguishable in size, all being uniformly narrow with finely dentate axial edges, although the S 1–2 are sometimes slightly exsert, conferring a symmetry to the calice. The paliform lobes (incorrectly called pali by Cairns 1982) are tall slender ribbons sometimes occurring two to a septum, but often missing from all or some of the septa within a calice. The paliform lobes (P 3) are indistinguishable from the centrally placed columellar elements, altogether forming a robust axial structure. The normally extratentacular (sympodial) budding of this species is usually sufficient to distinguish it from the only other colonial scleractinian known from this region, Solenosmilia australis, which has consistently distomadeal intratentacular budding. But, on rare occasions, B. candida is known to have this type of budding as well (Fig. 2 A). In that case, B. candida can be distinguished by its large columella, paliform lobes (P 3), and finely dentate septal axial edges. Dead coralla of this species form the substrate for at least six species of solitary Scleractinia and many other encrusting organisms (see Material). The species occurs in such local abundance (Fig. 1 A) that it must be considered to be a framework-forming (or constructional) azooxanthellate species, along with 18 other species discussed by Roberts et al. (2009: Table 2.3). The tissue of the living coral is pale orange. Distribution. Southernmost Brazil (off Rio Grande), entire coast of Argentina to latitude of Bahía Desvelos, and off Peninsula de Taito, Chile (Fig. 5), 500–1626 m. Previously known only from the holotype and nine additional records (Cairns 1982), the numerous specimens reported herein add many records of this species from off Argentina, and slightly increase its deepest known depth range from 1250 to 1626 m. B. candida is one of the few species to occur in cold temperate as well as the southern warm temperate region of the western Atlantic. It is also noteworthy in occurring on both sides of Patagonia. Material: PAT0108DR 1, 10, MNCN; PAT0108DR 2, 10, MNCN; PAT0108DR 7, 10, MNCN; PAT0108DR 8, 1, MNCN; PAT0108DR 11, 5, MNCN, and as dead substrate for M. capitolii, USNM; PAT0108DR 12, 10, MNCN; PAT0108DR 15, 5, MNCN, and as dead substrate for F. cinctutum, USNM 1193314; PAT 1008 DR 1, 3, MNCN; PAT 1008 DR 4, 5, MNCN; PAT 1008 DR 5, 5, MNCN, and 1 calice, USNM 1193268; PAT 1008 DR 6, 3, MNCN; PAT 1008 DR 9, 2, MNCN; PAT 1008 DR 10, 1, MNCN; PAT 1008 DR 13, 5, MNCN; PAT 1008 BC 24, 1 as dead substrate for Javania cristata, USNM 1193330; PAT 1108 DR 3, 3, MNCN; PAT 1108 DR 4, 5, MNCN and 1 colony, USNM 1193271; PAT 1108 DR 8, 2, MNCN; PAT 1108 DR 9, 10, MNCN; PAT 1108 DR 11, 3, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 4, 5, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 5, 5, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 6, 5, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 7, 5, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 9, 4, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 10, 5, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 11, 5, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 14, 3, MNCN; PAT 1208 DR 16, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 1, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 2, 3, MNCN; PAT0209DR 3, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 4, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 5, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 7, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 8, 7, MNCN; PAT0209DR 9, 4, MNCN; PAT0209DR 10, 3, MNCN; PAT0209DR 11, 3, MNCN and as dead substrate for D. dianthus, USNM 1192949; PAT0209DR 12, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 14, 5, MNCN and as dead substrate for C. cornu, USNM 1193289; PAT0209DR 15, 5, MNCN; PAT0209DR 16, dead substrate for C. cornu, USNM 1193291; PAT0210DR 5, 15, MNCN; PAT0210DR 6, 10, MNCN; PAT0210DR 7, 23, MNCN; PAT0210DR 8, 10, MNCN; PAT0210DR 9, 5, MNCN; PAT0210DR 10, 1 colony, USNM 1193269; PAT0210DR 11, 2, MNCN, and 2 branches, USNM 1193270; ATL08Lo 17, 1, MNCN; ATL08Lo 104, 10, MNCN; ATL09Lo 8, 2, MNCN; ATL0310Lo 32, 5, MNCN; ATL0310Lo 94, 5, MNCN; WH 328 / 71, dead substrate for paratype of M. capitolii, USNM 83381.
- Published as part of Cairns, Stephen D. & Polonio, Virginia, 2013, New records of deep-water Scleractinia off Argentina and the Falkland Islands in Zootaxa 3691 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/222205