SM23 Iciligorgia msp1
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Exsitu Images
Key Details
| SMID | SM23 |
| Catami | Encrusting |
| Identification Features | Short (<0.5 m), rigid, loosely branched fan; branching dichotomous and usually in a single plane. Colour bright red to light brown. This species resembles Iciligorgia schrammi Duchassaing, 1870 that is known to occur in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico at similar depths, however, due to the small size of the colonies observed from the present survey (typically ~10‒20 cm in height) we refrained from grouping it together with I. schrammi (colonies up to 1 m in height). |
| Year Identified | no data |
| Verification Status | ID from Image Only |
| Physical Sample | no data |
| WoRMS AphiaID | 267499 |
Taxonomy
| Phylum | Cnidaria |
| Class | Anthozoa |
| Order | Malacalcyonacea |
| Family | Melithaeidae |
| Genus | Iciligorgia |
| Species | - |
Morphology
| Cnidaria |
| Corals |
| Black and Octocorals |
| Soft corals |
| Encrusting |
| - |
| - |