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The
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long, and subdivide up to three times. The holdfast is missing from the
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in diameter. Unbranched final twigs reach up to
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with pointed tips, about
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in diameter. Polyps retract within slightly raised polyp-mounds with oval apertures (
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B). Polyp-mounds are distributed in 24 longitudinal rows on the branches, and sparsely placed. Colour of the colony is white. Sclerites of the coenenchyme are mostly colourless, some with a pale pink hue. They are mostly double discs reaching up to
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C, 4). Spindles reach up to
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in length, and
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in width, with 46 whorls of tubercles, with ends mostly acute. No anthocodial rods were found in the samples.
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Known only from the
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locality (
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.
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<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF1FFB3D9894185CC3CF82E" bold="true" box="[151,281,2008,2032]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
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holotype, coenenchymal sclerites.
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<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF6FFB4D9DB46CACC1BFF6F" bold="true" box="[197,318,151,177]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Remarks.</emphasis>
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described this species with a specimen from the coast of
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and assumed it to be a variety of
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is the sole specimen of this species and thus we cannot consider intera-specific variability; we consider that the differences between
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<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF6FFB4DDDE46B8C863FF20" box="[1216,1350,229,254]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">E. bradleyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C1F44CFFFF6FFB4DC9C46B8CDD8FEFB" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Eugorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="bradleyi">
<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF6FFB4DC9C46B8CDD8FEFB" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">E. bradleyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C1F44CFFFF6FFB4D81B4751CC54FEFB" box="[261,369,268,294]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" rank="variety" variety="alba">
var.
<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF6FFB4D8254751CC54FEFB" box="[315,369,268,293]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">alba</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are sufficient to regard them as different species. Moreover, there are no records of
<taxonomicName id="4C1F44CFFFF6FFB4DC9C4751CC27FE95" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Eugorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="bradleyi">
<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF6FFB4DC9C4751CC27FE95" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">E. bradleyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the coast of
<collectingCountry id="F3087FDCFFF6FFB4D8EC476FCFAFFE92" box="[498,650,306,332]" name="El Salvador" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">El Salvador</collectingCountry>
at present, but exploration there has been minimal. External morphology and colour of
<taxonomicName id="4C1F44CFFFF6FFB4D8D04704CF07FEAC" box="[462,546,345,370]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Eugorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="alba">
<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF6FFB4D8D04704CF07FEAC" box="[462,546,345,370]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">E. alba</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are very consistent with
<taxonomicName id="4C1F44CFFFF6FFB4DA5B4704C8B2FEAD" authority="Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864" authorityName="Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti" authorityYear="1864" box="[837,1431,345,371]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="alba">
<emphasis id="B96BE35EFFF6FFB4DA5B4704C935FEAC" box="[837,1040,345,370]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Leptogorgia alba</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8E42BDFFF6FFB4DD094704C8B2FEAD" author="Duchassaing" box="[1047,1431,345,371]" pageId="12" pageNumber="45" refString="Duchassaing, P. &amp; Michelotti, J. (1864) Supplement au memoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Extrait des memoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, Series 2, 23, 1 - 112." type="journal article" year="1864">Duchassaing &amp; Michelotti, 1864</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
; however, the sclerites, and especially the presence of double discs in of the former, places it in this different genus.
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