MXieuicanJAuscum - American Museum of Natural History

1959
SQUIRES: ATLANTIC CORALS
Among the species that have been referred to this genus are A.
fecunda (Pourtales) and A. pourtalesi (Duncan). The former has been
found in the eastern and western Atlantic and on the west coast of
Sumatra. The latter has been reported only from the Mediterranean.
Significant characters of the two are listed in table 5, in which it is
apparent that the only differences are in the degree of development of
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FIG. 7. Pennatulid alcyonarians identified as Anthoptilum cf. A. grandiflorum
(Verrill) by Dr. F. M. Bayer, associated with living stony coral
(Lophelia prolifera, Enallopsammia rostrata) and dead coral (L. prolifera,
Desmophyllum cristagalli) on a rock bottom. The coral appears as an indistinct
white mass in the left foreground, with the manganese-coated specimens
to the right. This figure is reproduced from a print made on shipboard which
accounts for the vibration images. The negatives from this station were not
available in 1958. Specimens of coral and alcyonarians seen in this photograph
were collected by Clarke-Bumpus nets attached to the camera rig. V7-12
photograph, 3380 meters, off New York, latitude 380 09' N., longitude 610
05' W.
the costae. The specimens at hand show, in the majority of instances,
costae of variable size extending to, or nearly to, the base of the
corallite. In one instance, however, the costae were not found below a
distance of one-half of the corallite height. Although I have not exam-
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