Polysyncraton amethysteum Van Name, 1902 Fig. 3K

Material examined.

CAGoM-0158, Lar 2, 9 m, 07-10-2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez; CAGoM-0118, B10, 9 m, 17-06-2015, leg. L. Palomino-Alvarez.

Remarks.

Colony found on corals and rocks. Orange zooids when alive and in preservation.

Global distribution.

United States (Van Name 1921), Bermuda (Van Name 1902, 1921, 1945), Puerto Rico (Van Name 1945), Guadeloupe (Gravier 1955), Martinique (Gravier 1955); Colombia (Van Name 1945), French Guiana (Monniot 2016), Brazil (Millar 1958, 1977; Rodrigues and Rocha 1993; Rocha et al. 2005; Rocha and Kremer 2005), Cape Verde (Monniot and Monniot 1967), Senegal ( Pérès 1948, 1949), Ghana (Millar 1953), Tunisia ( Pérès 1954).