“…The authors hypothesized that the Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW), which stretches along the Chilean continental margin in 400 to 1200 m deep, transports these species to the northern latitudes. The widespread distribution patterns of many echinoderms in waters at the southern tip of South America agrees with the results of other specific studies such as those of Lancellotti & Vásquez (1999), Larraín, Mutschke, Riveros, & Solar, (1999), Penchaszadeh, Bigatti, & Miloslavich (2004), Ríos, Mutschke, Montiel, Gerdes, & Arntz, (2005), López-Gappa & Sueiro (2007, González-Wevar et al (2016), probably mirroring abilities of these invertebrates to cope with the environmental heterogeneity in this hydrographic and ecological complex fjord and channel system. Examples of these echinoderms are G. chilensis and A. agassizii, species that inhabit the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of South America as well as in Antarctic waters (Hunter & Halanych, 2008).…”