Southern hemisphere deep-water stylasterid corals including a new species,Errina
labrosa sp. n. (Cnidaria,Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae), with notes on some symbiotic scalpellids (Cirripedia,Thoracica, Scalpellidae) |
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Authors: | Daniela Pica Stephen D Cairns Stefania Puce William A Newman |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy ;2.Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560, U.S.A. ;3.Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093-0202, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | A number of stylasterid corals are known to act as host species and create refuges for a variety of mobile and sessile organisms, which enhances their habitat complexity. These include annelids, anthozoans, cirripeds, copepods, cyanobacteria, echinoderms, gastropods, hydroids and sponges. Here we report the first evidence of a diverse association between stylasterids and scalpellid pedunculate barnacles and describe a new stylasterid species, Errina
labrosa, from the Tristan da Cunha Archipelago. Overall, five stylasterid species are found to host eight scalpellid barnacles from several biogeographic regions in the southern hemisphere (Southern Ocean, temperate South America and the southern Indo-Pacific realms). There is an apparent lack of specificity in this kind of association and different grades of reaction to the symbiosis have been observed in the coral. These records suggest that the association between pedunculate barnacles and hard stylasterid corals has a wide distribution among different biogeographic realms and that it is relatively rare and confined largely to deep water. |
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Keywords: | Deep-water symbiosis Scalpellidae" target="_blank">Scalpellidae Stylasteridae" target="_blank">Stylasteridae new species |
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