New record and range extension of the primnoid octocoral Verticillata castellviae in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

SCHEJTER, LAURA; MAUNA, CECILIA; PÉREZ, CARLOS D.

Marine and Fishery Sciences (MAFIS)

Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero

Lugar: Mar del Plata; Año: 2021 vol. 34 p. 275 - 281

In this study we report the presence of the soft coral Verticillata castellviae (Zapata-Guardiola, López-González & Gili, 2013), off Buenos Aires, Argentina, at 947m, which constitutes the northernmost record for this species. It was collected as a bycaught species with a troncopyramidal trap during an experimental cruise devoted to the study of the red crab Chaceon notialis and the Patagonian lobsterette Thymops birsteini.