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Colonies of Thesea pyrrha are white, yellow, orange or red, 3 to 10 cm tall and 3 to 9 cm wide, growing flat to sparsely bushy.
Branches upward to 6th order, terminal branches between 0.5 - 6.7 cm long. The main branch is 2.5 to 18 cm long and 5 to 15 mm wide.
Branch thickness varies from slender proximally to thicker in the middle part; tips are rounded and slightly slender.
Polyps are only on the branches, arranged in four alternate main rows, sometimes irregularly.
Etymology. The species name "pyrrha" (Gr. pyrrhos, flaming, red, yellowish-red) alludes to the "flaming color of living specimens", which ranges from bright red to yellowish-red.
Source:
Thesea pyrrha sp. nov., a new shallow-water octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from southwestern Atlantic, and implications on the systematics of the genus
Autoren: Ágatha Nascimento Carpinelli, Ralf Tarciso Silva Cordeiro, Clóvis Barreira e Castro, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5116.1.4
Branches upward to 6th order, terminal branches between 0.5 - 6.7 cm long. The main branch is 2.5 to 18 cm long and 5 to 15 mm wide.
Branch thickness varies from slender proximally to thicker in the middle part; tips are rounded and slightly slender.
Polyps are only on the branches, arranged in four alternate main rows, sometimes irregularly.
Etymology. The species name "pyrrha" (Gr. pyrrhos, flaming, red, yellowish-red) alludes to the "flaming color of living specimens", which ranges from bright red to yellowish-red.
Source:
Thesea pyrrha sp. nov., a new shallow-water octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from southwestern Atlantic, and implications on the systematics of the genus
Autoren: Ágatha Nascimento Carpinelli, Ralf Tarciso Silva Cordeiro, Clóvis Barreira e Castro, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5116.1.4
