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This white horn coral is only known from Las Ánimas Island, Gulf of California, the coast of Mexico and the west coast of Peru.
The coral has been found on rocky bottoms, in caves and on rocky outcrops.
Colonies usually grow in one level, but in some cases they extend into two or three levels.
The colonies studied are bushy, usually with lateral and irregular branching, subdividing up to 10 times, and some branching is anastomosing.
The colonies grow up to 25 cm long and 21 cm wide, the diameter of the branches reaches up to 10 mm.
The colonies are infested by a parasitic polychaete species that perforates the axils and, in some branches, are also colonized by small Cirripedia.
Source:
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. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7910
The coral has been found on rocky bottoms, in caves and on rocky outcrops.
Colonies usually grow in one level, but in some cases they extend into two or three levels.
The colonies studied are bushy, usually with lateral and irregular branching, subdividing up to 10 times, and some branching is anastomosing.
The colonies grow up to 25 cm long and 21 cm wide, the diameter of the branches reaches up to 10 mm.
The colonies are infested by a parasitic polychaete species that perforates the axils and, in some branches, are also colonized by small Cirripedia.
Source:
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. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.581.7910
