Calcigorgia spiculifera Broch 1935

• Main Authors: Matsumoto, Asako K., Van Ofwegen, Leen P., Bayer, Frederick M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Acanthogorgiidae; Calcigorgia; Calcigorgia spiculifera; Attu; Bering Sea; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3510448; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038CDB21FF86A23BFF65FAF76716FEFF

Calcigorgia spiculifera Broch, 1935 Figures 1d, 14 b–c, 16–20 Calcigorgia spiculifera Broch, 1935: 22; 1940: 11.(54°36'N, 143°48'E, Sea of Okhotsk, 165 m deep, «Ara» Trawl 27-1, Silty sand, Otter trawl, 8–9 Sep.1932, collector: P. Yu. Shmidt) Calcigorgia spiculifera Sanchez and Cairns 2004: 270. Calcigorgia simushiri , Dautova 2018: 9. (46°46'41”N, 151°55'23”E, East of Simushir I., Sea of Okhotsk, 200 m deep, “Tikhookeansky”, deredged, 16 Aug. 1987, S. Grebelnyi leg.) ? Calcigorgia spiculifera , Dautova 2018: 11. (47°25'N, 152°42'E, Rikord Strait, Sea of Okhotsk, 440 m deep, RV”Oparin”, trawled, 1 Jul.1988, coll. Gruzov) Material examined . Identified as C. spiculifera by Bayer: USNM 1012500; neotype, NE of Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea: 53°11.67'N 169°41.07'W, depth 431 m, bottom temp, 3.6°C, F/ N Vesteraalen cruise 94-1, haul 44, 11 June 1994, one nearly complete colony, (USNM-SEM Stub 2 539); USNM 8849, Gull Island, Akutan Pass, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, East Bering Sea, U.S. Coast Survey, coll. Dall, William Healey, dry; USNM 75091, Queen Charlotte Strait, Near N End Of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 50.87°N, 127.47°W, depth 30 to 50 m, scuba, coll. McDaniel, N. 1983; USNM 82124, South of Umnak Island, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, 52.8761°N, 168.795°W, depth 86 m, R/ V Miller Freeman cruise802,VH-80- 30, 5 August 1980; USNM 100735, Tanaga Pass, between Ulak and Ilak I, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, 51°26.98'N, 178°36.6'E, depth 393 m, bottom temp. 3.7°C, R/ V Pacific Knight, cruise 94-1, haul 161, 18 July 1994; USNM 100805, Aleutian Islands, Near Islands, SW of Attu I., Bering Sea, 52.28°N, 172.30°W, depth 234 m, R/ V Starlight, 84-1, haul 36, 13 July 1984, Two colonies, 1 large in alc (USNM-SEM Stub 2 534); USNM 100807, Amatignak Island, Delarof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, 51°N, 179°W, R/ V Pacific Knight, cruise 941, haul 161, 18 July 1994; USNM 1006141, Umnak Island, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, 52.6326°N, ...