Desmophyllum cristagalli Milne Edwards & Haime 1848

• Main Author: Altuna, Álvaro
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae; Desmophyllum; Desmophyllum cristagalli; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146153; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7911FA2B106EFFB0FF1E70DC93EC8DD9

Desmophyllum cristagalli Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (Tables 1−3) Desmophyllum cristagalli : Zibrowius 1980: 117, pl. 61, figs. A– O, pl. 62, figs. A–M.—Monteiro Marques & Andrade 1981: 88.—Zibrowius 1985: 317, tab. 2.—Altuna & García Carrascosa 1990: 56.—Ramil Blanco & Fernández Pulpeiro 1990: 27.—Álvarez Claudio 1993: 417.—Altuna Prados 1994a: 467, pl. 12, fig. B, pl. 14, fig. B.—Altuna Prados 1994b: 55.— Altuna Prados 1994c: 78 (fig. 1).—Álvarez Claudio 1994c: 465.—Altuna 1995: 90.—Brito & Ocaña 2004: 379, fig. 156.— Reveillaud et al . 2008: 322 (tab. 1), 325 (fig. 4).—Altuna 2010: 21. Desmophyllum dianthus : Cairns & Chapman 2001: 35 (tab. 1). —MMA 2007: 15. —OSPAR 2008: 38. Material examined . Le Danois Bank, 2003: Stn. V 5, 544 m, three specimens. Le Danois Bank, 2008: Station unknown, seven specimens alive, 16 specimens dead, and fragments; Stn. R1R 8, 677 m, 11 very small specimens, only one alive, and fragments. Avilés Canyon system: Stn. R 1, 500 m, eight specimens, six of them dead. Galicia Bank: Stn. G 5, 859 m, one specimen on a net fragment; four specimens, one of them dead on Madrepora oculata two specimens, one of them dead on Lophelia pertusa three specimens two of them dead; four specimens, one of them dead on unidentifiable coral debris; Stn. G 6, 761 m, 13 specimens, one on M. oculata , six of them dead; Stn. V 5, 877 m, three specimens, one of them on M. oculata , and a dead fragment; Stn. V 6, 766 m, five specimens, two of them dead; Stn. V 8, 780 m, numerous specimens; Stn. R 2, 614 m, three specimens, two of them dead on M. oculata . Remarks . Specimens are highly variable, and sometimes large-sized. Those from stn. R1R8 are very small juveniles and are identified as Desmophyllum cristagalli with caution. One of them is vermiform (H= 2.0 cm; GCD= 0.4 cm), and the others turbinate and of similar size (H= 0.3−0.6 cm; GCD= 0.1−0.2 cm). They show a certain variability in the structure of the columella, ornamentation of the wall and septa (smooth of finely ...