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(
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)
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB44FFB2FF4947BAFEA0FA57" box="[151,375,1509,1532]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Lophogorgia clavata</emphasis>
Horn, 1860: 233
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.
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Verrill 1869b: 423
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.
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.
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dry fragments, locality unknown (purchased), depth not given, donor
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of
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.
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Description.
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The
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consists of 3 small fragments, measuring 45, 15, and
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. The largest one is slightly flattened, 4.0 mm in diameter, several stumps along the branch suggest that the branching was pinnate as Horn (1860) pointed out (
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). Polyp-mounds are small, slightly raised, and numerous, arranged all around the branches. Colour of the colony is dull reddish-pink. All the coenenchymal sclerites are reddish-pink, and mostly capstans (
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). They reach up to
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in length, and
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in width (
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,
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); some are densely tuberculated, barrel-like capstans (
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,
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). Spindles reach up to
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in length, and
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in width, with 34 whorls of complex tubercles (
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). Anthocodial sclerites are conspicuous, pale pink, long rods, up to
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in width with scalloped margins, some with bent axes (
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,
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).
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB45FFB3FF49417CFE90FC90" bold="true" box="[151,327,803,827]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">FIGURE 16. A,</emphasis>
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,
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, light micrograph of sclerites.
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB45FFB3FF49459DFEF1F871" bold="true" box="[151,294,1986,2010]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">FIGURE 17.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB45FFB3FEF3459DFDD2F872" box="[301,517,1986,2009]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Leptogorgia clavata</emphasis>
(YPM 2268)
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, SEM of coenenchymal sclerites, and anthocodial rods.
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FF1842C8FEB0FF1A" bold="true" box="[198,359,151,177]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Distribution.</emphasis>
The
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was probably found in Mazatlan,
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, and no other specimens of this species were available for examination (
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,
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).
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FF494724FEF1FA38" bold="true" box="[151,294,1403,1427]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">FIGURE 18.</emphasis>
Geographical distribution of
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FDBC4724FCEDFA39" box="[610,826,1403,1426]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Leptogorgia clavata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="C36BB9A4BB46FFB0FF1847B1FD3EF833" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BCEEA2FBB46FFB0FF1847B1FB02F8E3" blockId="26.[151,1436,1518,1944]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FF1847B1FEE8F9A3" bold="true" box="[198,319,1518,1544]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Remarks.</emphasis>
Horn (1860) described two species of
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FCC747B1FC66F9AC" box="[793,945,1518,1543]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Lophogorgia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from unknown localities (
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<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FB2C47B1FA43F9AC" box="[1266,1428,1518,1543]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">L. aurantiaca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FF164449FEEAF984" baseAuthorityName="YPM" baseAuthorityYear="2268" box="[200,317,1558,1583]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="clavata">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FF164449FEEAF984" box="[200,317,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">L. clavata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and one species of
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FDED4449FD01F984" box="[563,726,1558,1583]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Rhipidigorgia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FDED4449FD01F984" box="[563,726,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Rhipidigorgia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(now
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FCFE4449FB94F984" baseAuthorityName="Horn" baseAuthorityYear="1860" box="[800,1091,1558,1583]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Pacifigorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="englemanni">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FCFE4449FB94F984" box="[800,1091,1558,1583]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Pacifigorgia englemanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), however, only a small fragment of
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FF294461FE4BF9FC" baseAuthorityName="Horn" baseAuthorityYear="1860" box="[247,412,1598,1623]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Pacifigorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="englemanni">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FF294461FE4BF9FC" box="[247,412,1598,1623]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">P. englemanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and some fragments of
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FD6A4461FCFEF9FC" baseAuthorityName="YPM" baseAuthorityYear="2268" box="[692,809,1598,1623]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="clavata">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FD6A4461FCFEF9FC" box="[692,809,1598,1623]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">L. clavata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were found at YPM. It seems that the fragments of
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FA5A4461FF3AF9D4" baseAuthorityName="YPM" baseAuthorityYear="2268" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="clavata">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FA5A4461FF3AF9D4" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">L. clavata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were given to A. E. Verrill by the Philadelphia Academy, and he donated them to YPM (Breedy &amp; Guzman 2002). None of the Horns complete specimens was found. The specimen of
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FB4D44D1FAEDF90C" baseAuthorityName="Horn" baseAuthorityYear="1860" box="[1171,1338,1678,1703]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Pacifigorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="englemanni">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FB4D44D1FAEDF90C" box="[1171,1338,1678,1703]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">P. englemanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was the only one with collecting site recorded as Mazatlan, thus, Verrill (1868b) assumed that the other two were from the same locality. Because of the scant nature of the
<typeStatus id="54CA548DBB46FFB0FCC94481FC9EF953" box="[791,841,1758,1784]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">type</typeStatus>
material and the lack of any other specimen that matches Horns description, it is not possible to validate the taxonomic status of
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FB504559FADEF8B4" baseAuthorityName="YPM" baseAuthorityYear="2268" box="[1166,1289,1798,1823]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="clavata">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FB504559FADEF8B4" box="[1166,1289,1798,1823]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">L. clavata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Herein we describe the
<typeStatus id="54CA548DBB46FFB0FEF54571FE89F8E3" box="[299,350,1838,1864]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">type</typeStatus>
fragments for reference until new material that fits this species is collected.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCEEA2FBB46FFB0FF184509FD3EF833" blockId="26.[151,1436,1518,1944]" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
It is not possible to tell much about similarities of
<taxonomicName id="4C7191ACBB46FFB0FCC84509FC5BF8C4" baseAuthorityName="YPM" baseAuthorityYear="2268" box="[790,908,1878,1903]" class="Anthozoa" family="Gorgoniidae" genus="Leptogorgia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="clavata">
<emphasis id="B905363DBB46FFB0FCC84509FC5BF8C4" box="[790,908,1878,1903]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">L. clavata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with other species, but the conspicuous long anthocodial rods distinguish it at present (
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).
</paragraph>
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