Eunicea succinea

• Main Author: Sánchez, Juan Armando
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Plexauridae; Eunicea; Eunicea succinea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10546012; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F28783086B0939EBF58059045BFB4C

EUNICEA SUCCINEA (PALLAS, 1766) (FIG. 1C) Gorgonia succinea Pallas, 1766: 200. Gorgonia plantaginea Lamarck, 1815: 163. Eunicea hummelincki Stiasny, 1941: 109. Eunicea succinea: Lamouroux, 1816: 437, Bayer, 1961: 134. Description: Colonies up to 30 cm in height, branching mainly in one plane; branches long but scarcely branched (Fig. 1C). Dry colonies beige to pale ochre. Sclerites from middle layer large and acute; spindles up to 1.5 mm. Axial layer sclerites variable in size and form; acute spindles or short spindles with prominent ornamentation. Polyp rods flattened. Surface sclerites torch-like clubs. Diagnostic features: The calyx is tubular, very prominent and up to 10 mm, usually longer than the branch diameter. Distribution and habitat: Bahamas, Antilles, and Central America. Possible in deeper reef slopes of oceanic reefs (14–40 m). Eunicea laxispica is particularly abundant on the leeward reefs and slopes of San Salvador and Abaco, Bahamas, where it was observed sharing habitat with E. mammosa (pers. observ., December, 1998). Examined material: ICN-MHN-CO-085 (U-62), Isla Narsa, Capurganá, Golfo de Urabá, Colombian Caribbean, col. J.A. Sánchez, 2.x.1995, leeward terrace 15 m ICN-MHN-CO-093 (N-13), Banco de Serrana, Colombian Caribbean, col. J.A. Sánchez, 15.vi.1995, lagoonal patch reef, 3.5 m depth. USNM 97687, (19), isla Tesoro, islas del Rosario, Caribbean coast of Colombia, col. J.A. Sánchez & A. Ramirez, 16.ix.1992; fore-reef terrace on the mixed corals zone 17 m. USNM 97686 (18), Isla Tesoro, Islas del Rosario, Caribbean coast of Colombia, col. J.A. Sánchez & A. Ramirez, 16.ix.1992; fore-reef terrace on the mixed corals zone 15 m. ( platantaginea morphotype). INV- CNID-377 (P-45), isla de Providencia, Colombian Caribbean, 20.x.1994, col. J.A. Sánchez, lagoonal patch reef 10 m. INV-CNID-376 (B-22), Banco Bushnell, continental shelf Colombian Caribbean, 4.x.1995, tableau mixed corals zone 14 m. USNM 51555, North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea; Virgin Islands, St. John, Chocolate Hole. 6 m, ...