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Description Stichopathes sp., 80 m Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico.

Photograph courtesy of NOAA-FGBNMS/UNCW-UVP. Identifications by D. Opresko. At this time, this species cannot be assigned to any nominal species; however, not all nominal species in this genus have been adequately characterized. For more information see: Opresko DM, Nuttall MF, Hickerson EL (2016). Black corals of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Gulf of Mexico Science 2016(1): 47-67.
Author NOAA-FGBNMS/UNCW-UVP JPG file - 815.82 kB - 1 791 x 1 102 pixels added on 2017-03-30689 viewsERMS taxaDigital photo, entire species Stichopathes Brook, 1889checked Molodtsova, Tina 2018-07-30 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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