Check List 18(6): 1333-1336, doi: 10.15560/18.6.1333
New records and notes on the geographical distribution of the colonial cup coral Coenocyathus bowersi Vaughan, 1906 (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) from northern Chile
expand article infoFelipe Méndez-Abarca‡, Renzo Pepe-Victoriano‡, Enrique A. Mundaca§
‡ Universidad Arturo Prat, Arica, Chile§ Universidad Católica del Maule, Curicó, Chile

Corresponding author: Felipe Méndez-Abarca ( f.mendez.abarca@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Sergio N. Stampar
© Felipe Méndez-Abarca, Renzo Pepe-Victoriano, Enrique A. Mundaca.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Méndez-Abarca F, Pepe-Victoriano R, Mundaca EA (2022) New records and notes on the geographical distribution of the colonial cup coral Coenocyathus bowersi Vaughan, 1906 (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) from northern Chile. Check List 18(6): 1333-1336. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.6.1333
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Abstract

We present two new records of the colonial cup coral Coenocyathus bowersi Vaughan, 1906 from northern Chile. Colonies were collected off the coastal of Taltal, Antofagasta Region, and off the coast of the city of Iquique, Tarapacá Region, both in northern Chile. Our finds confirm the presence of this species on the Chilean coast and extend the geographic range of this species approximately 765 km north from the only other known occurrences of C. bowersi in Chile.

Keywords
Antofagasta, Chilean coast, Hexacorallia, Taltal, Iquique, Pacific Coast