Type locality

“[...] stn PS61/164-01, 53º23.80’S, 42º42.03’W, west of South Georgia, Antarctica, 312.5-321.6 m depth [...]”.

Toponymic note and update

stn (=station) PS61/164-01, at west South Georgia (largest island of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, at the southern Atlantic Ocean).

Types

Paratypes: Museu de Ciències Naturals (Zoologia) de Barcelona, MZB 2013-4033 (“stn. PS61/174-01, 54º24.47’S, 35º36.81’W, north east of South Georgia, 278.3-279.8 m depth”; 4 fragments, ex CRO-0040), MZB 2013-3951 (“stn PS61/182-01, 54º27.63’S, 35º41.33’W, north east of South Georgia, 249.3-256.0 m depth”; 2 fragments, ex CRO-0041), MZB 2013-3978 (“stn PS61/150-01, 54º30.22’S 56º08.20’W, south east of Falkland Islands, 286.3-291.6 m depth”; 1 fragmented colony, ex CRO-0038). CRO: octocoral reference collection of the research group “Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos”, Universidad de Sevilla.

Types in other museums

Holotype: Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg (fragment of a larger colony, C11744).

Paratypes: Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg (4 fragments, C11745) + National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (2 fragments, 1128949) + octocoral reference collection of the research group “Biodiversidad y Ecología de Invertebrados Marinos”, Universidad de Sevilla (1 colony and various fragments, CRO-0039).