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Fig. 2 | Marine Biodiversity Records

Fig. 2

From: Widest geographic distribution of a shallow and mesophotic antipatharian coral (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia): Antipathes grandis VERRILL, 1928 – confirmed by morphometric and molecular analyses

Fig. 2

Scanning electron micrographs of terminal branchlets and abpolypar spines. Terminal branchlets represented by capital letters, with their respective lower case indicating the close-up of an abpolypar spine. From top down: A. grandis holotype – unknown colour (A, a); A. grandis from Hawaii – white (B, b); A. grandis from Madagascar – white (C, c); A. grandis from Hawaii – red (D, d); A. grandis from Madagascar – red (E,e). Terminal branchlets from the Malagasy specimens (C, E) clearly show polypar spines at the bottom side of the branchlet. Indicative scale bar of terminal branchlets = 100 μm. Indicative scale bar of spines = 10 μm

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Marine Biodiversity Records

ISSN: 1755-2672

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