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Tanacetipathes hirta
Description Tanacetipathes hirta, 85-100 m Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico.Photograph courtesy of NOAA-FGBNMS/UNCW-UVP. Identifications by D. Opresko. Specimens from the Flower Garden Banks have slightly larger skeletal spines than those of most specimens collected outside the Gulf of Mexico. 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. JPG file - 1.12 MB - 1 791 x 1 344 pixels added on 2017-03-30357 viewsWoRMS taxaDigital photo, entire species Tanacetipathes hirta (Gray, 1857)checked Molodtsova, Tina 2018-08-03
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