Corallium medea Bayer 1964 ...

• Main Authors: Castro, Clovis B., Thiago, Cristovam M., Medeiros, Marcelo S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Coralliidae; Corallium; Corallium medea; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6273790; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6273790

Corallium medea Bayer, 1964 (Figs. 1–4) Corallium medea Bayer 1964: 468 –473, figs. 1–3; Messing et al. 1990: 32, fig. 7a. Diagnosis. Branches nearly round in cross section. Coenenchymal surface smooth or with extremely small granulations. Axis without pits beneath autozooids. Autozooids predominantly facing one side of the colony and retracted within hemispherical coenenchymal mounds. Coenenchyme with 6­, 7­, and 8­radiates, and double clubs. Double clubs with small protuberances on their heads. Material examined. MNRJ 4263 (intertwined with a colony of the scleractinian coral Lophelia pertusa — only a small area with tissue), MNRJ 4265 (fragment), MNRJ 4887 (colony with base), Almirante Saldanha Bank (22 22.35” S, 0 37 39.32” W), 380–500 m, collected by REVIZEE project, research vessel Astro Garoupa, 6 November 1997. Description. Arborescent planar colonies (Fig. 1 A). Studied specimens include an almost complete colony (MNRJ 4887) and a fragment (MNRJ 4265), 15.5 and 28.6 cm high, 18.0 and 14.0 cm wide, ... : Published as part of Castro, Clovis B., Thiago, Cristovam M. & Medeiros, Marcelo S., 2003, First record of the family Coralliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the western South Atlantic, with a description of Corallium medea Bayer, 1964, pp. 1-8 in Zootaxa 323 on pages 2-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156622 ...