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Muricea austera is widespread in the southeastern Pacific on the coasts from Mexico to Peru, and the type locality was the Pearl Islands, Panama.
The lectotype is a bushy colony that was 20 cm long and 23 cm wide, with a brittle coenenchyma that was partially lost on some branches, and with mostly naked terminals.
The color of the colony is reddish brown.
The colonies branch and form a tuft-like structure or grow mostly in a Eben in some cases the anchorage extends for some distance along the substrate and forms many more branches in a fringe-like colony that in some cases grows upside down.
The polyps are orange to yellow.
Like all gorgonians of the eastern Pacific, Muricea austera is azooxanthellate.
Literature reference:
Graham Edgar Breedy O, Guzman HM (2016).
A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part II.
ZooKeys 581: 1-69. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.581.7910 - #.
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7910&display_type=list&element_type=8
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The lectotype is a bushy colony that was 20 cm long and 23 cm wide, with a brittle coenenchyma that was partially lost on some branches, and with mostly naked terminals.
The color of the colony is reddish brown.
The colonies branch and form a tuft-like structure or grow mostly in a Eben in some cases the anchorage extends for some distance along the substrate and forms many more branches in a fringe-like colony that in some cases grows upside down.
The polyps are orange to yellow.
Like all gorgonians of the eastern Pacific, Muricea austera is azooxanthellate.
Literature reference:
Graham Edgar Breedy O, Guzman HM (2016).
A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part II.
ZooKeys 581: 1-69. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.581.7910 - #.
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7910&display_type=list&element_type=8
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
