Pacifigorgia senta, Breedy & Guzman, 2003

Breedy, Odalisca & Guzman, Hector M., 2003, Octocorals from Costa Rica: The genus Pacifigorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae), Zootaxa 281 (1), pp. 1-60 : 47

Pacifigorgia senta , new species

( Plate 12 , Fig. 11 )

(?) Gorgonia eximia Hickson, 1928: 386–387 ; Stiasny, 1943: 74–76, Plate 6 .

Figures

PLATE 6. Pacifigorgia firma new species, holotype (UCR 915) (dry specimen); A, entire colony; B, detail of the branches; C, living colony; D, photomicrograph of the sclerites.

FIGURE 11. Pacifigorgia senta new species, holotype (UCR 923), SEM­micrographs of the sclerites: A–B, spindles; C, capstans; D, immature sclerites; E, anthocodial rods.

PLATE 12. Pacifigorgia senta new species, holotype (UCR 923) (dry specimen); A, entire colony; B, detail of the branches; C, photomicrograph of the sclerites.