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First record of Lillipathes ritamariae Opresko and Breedy, 2010 (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean

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The first record of Lillipathes ritamariae Opresko and Breedy, 2010 from the southeastern Pacific is presented based on a collected specimen that became entangled in a demersal longline at about 1300–1800 m depth off Caldera (27° S), northern Chile. This record extends the known geographical distribution of this species in the eastern Pacific more than 4200 km in the southward direction along the western coast of South America. This species is also the eleventh confirmed black coral species record from the country.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the crew of the FV Juan Antonio I from the port of Caldera, northern Chile, for the collection of the Lillipathes specimen. We also thank Herman Nuñez and Jorge Pérez-Schultheiss (MNHNCL) for their help with information about the MNHNCL collections; Sergio Miquel (MACN) for his help with the SEM examination of the sample; Oleg Poltarukha (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia), Alexander Mironov (P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia), John Steel (University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand), and John Bruner (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) for their help with finding literature; Daniel Wagner (NOAA Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Honolulu, USA) for his help concerning the examination on antipatharians and especially Dennis M Opresko (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA) for his review of an early version of the manuscript. We are also indebted to the three anonymous reviewers for their helpful corrections, suggestions, and comments, which improved the manuscript.

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  1. Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Atacama, Copayapu 485, Copiapó, Región de Atacama, Chile

    Juan Francisco Araya

  2. Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

    Juan Francisco Araya

  3. Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PIDi), Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Las Palmeras 3360, Casilla 9845, Ñuñoa, Santiago, 7800003, Chile

    Juan Antonio Aliaga

  4. Departamento de Química, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, José Pedro Alessandri 1242, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile

    Juan Antonio Aliaga

  5. Los Gladiolos 520, Caldera, Región de Atacama, Chile

    Marta Esther Araya

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Araya, J.F., Aliaga, J.A. & Araya, M.E. First record of Lillipathes ritamariae Opresko and Breedy, 2010 (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Mar Biodiv 48, 1601–1605 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0591-1

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