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Description Aphanipathes pedata, 60-130 m Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico.
Photograph courtesy of NOAA-FGBNMS/UNCW-UVP. Identifications by D. Opresko. Specimens from the Flower Garden Banks have larger polypar spines than those described for the type specimen, which was collected from the Caribbean. For more information see: Opresko DM, Nuttall MF, Hickerson EL (2016). Black corals of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Gulf of Mexico Science 2016(1): 47-67.
Author NOAA-FGBNMS/UNCW-UVP
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added on 2017-03-30342 viewsTraits taxaDigital photo, entire species Aphanipathes pedata (Gray, 1857)checked Molodtsova, Tina 2018-08-03
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