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Issue: Vol. 3741 No. 3: 28 Nov. 2013
Type: Article
Published: 2013-11-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.5
Page range: 369–376
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 3

Armadillogorgia albertoi sp. nov.: a new primnoid from the Argentinean deep sea

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”-CONICET. Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”-CONICET. Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Alcyonacea Anthozoa Benthos Buenos Aires Cnidaria Octocorals Southwest Atlantic.

Abstract

Eleven specimens of a new species of primnoid from the Argentinean deep sea are here presented. Armadillogorgia albertoi sp. nov. differs from A. cyathella Bayer, 1980 in colony and polyp morphology, abaxial sclerite number and shape. It is the second species of the hitherto monospecific genus, and the northernmost record of the genus.