Schejter, L.; Acuña, F. H.; Garese, A.; Cordeiro, R. T. S.; Pérez, C. D. (2018). Sea Pens (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea) from Argentine waters: new distributional records and first report of associated anemones. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences. 12(4): 292-301.
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Schejter, L.; Acuña, F. H.; Garese, A.; Cordeiro, R. T. S.; Pérez, C. D.
2018
Sea Pens (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea) from Argentine waters: new distributional records and first report of associated anemones
Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences
12(4): 292-301
Publication
In the present study, we report recent findings of the sea pens Anthoptilum
grandiflorum, Pennatula inflata and Halipteris africana in order to update their
distributional information in areas under Argentine jurisdiction. In this sense, we update
the southern distributional limit of the species in Argentina to the Burdwood Bank. We
also report the association of A. grandiflorum and H. africana with the sea anemone
Hormathia pectinata. The kind of relation between both associates is discussed. This
represents the first record of an association between sea pens and anemones for the
South Atlantic Ocean and the second report in the world.