Prof. Dr. Peter Wirtz, Madeira
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Antipathes gracilis forms large, highly branched, fan-shaped colonies that can reach half a meter or more in height.
Their primary branches are often very distinctly curved, the smallest branches are straight or slightly curved, usually less than 1.5 cm long, and arranged along both sides of the branches.
The black coral's spines are short, triangular, smooth, arranged in 7–8 rows with 30–50 spines per cm in each row.
The polyps are arranged in a single row on the branches and are restricted to only one side of the corallum in the main part.
Live colonies are orange or reddish-orange.
Antipathes gracilis has sparse zooxanthellae, but is still considered azooxanthellate!
Antipathes gracilis has its range in the western Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, its easternmost location is around Sao-Thomé, off the east coast of Africa.
Synonyms:
Antipathella brooki Johnson, 1899 · unaccepted > junior homonym
Antipathella gracilis (Gray, 1860) · unaccepted
Their primary branches are often very distinctly curved, the smallest branches are straight or slightly curved, usually less than 1.5 cm long, and arranged along both sides of the branches.
The black coral's spines are short, triangular, smooth, arranged in 7–8 rows with 30–50 spines per cm in each row.
The polyps are arranged in a single row on the branches and are restricted to only one side of the corallum in the main part.
Live colonies are orange or reddish-orange.
Antipathes gracilis has sparse zooxanthellae, but is still considered azooxanthellate!
Antipathes gracilis has its range in the western Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, its easternmost location is around Sao-Thomé, off the east coast of Africa.
Synonyms:
Antipathella brooki Johnson, 1899 · unaccepted > junior homonym
Antipathella gracilis (Gray, 1860) · unaccepted
