Black corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia): first records and a new species from the Brazilian coast.
A new species, Cirripathes secchini (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the Abrolhos area (Bahia, Brazil) is described and constitutes the first record to this genus from Brazil. Two other species (Antipathes hirta, first record from the Southwestern Atlantic; and Antipathes fernandezi, first record from the Atlantic Ocean) are compared to the most recent redescriptions and new data on the size distribution of the characters is provided. To the present there are only two records of the order Antipatharia from Brazil.
Echeverría
Carlos Alejandro
CA
Dto. de Zoología, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ccs, Bloco A, Ilha do Fundao, 21940-590, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. caecheve@acd.ufrj.br
D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D001938:Brazil; D004777:Environment; D013045:Species Specificity