Astrogorgia fam subsp. gen var. indet, . sp. 9

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

"fam. Plexauridae" gen. indet. sp. 9

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Plexauridae sp. 9; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Plexauridae; scientificNameAuthorship: Gray, 1859; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Desroches S 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 61.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 140.4 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender , Kaveh Samimi-Namin , Paris Stefanoudis ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Colonies up to 40 cm in height, fan-shaped, appearing mostly uniplanar and heavily branched. With conspicuous polyps giving the colony a fuzzy appearance. Multi-coloured with a pale white base, a dark-red to purple middle area and a bright yellow outer edge. This colouration is mostly well-developed in larger colonies (Fig. 55).