Verrucella sp. indet.

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Verrucella sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Verrucella; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Ellisellidae; genus: Verrucella; scientificNameAuthorship: Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 21 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 64.5 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender , Kaveh Samimi-Namin , Paris Stefanoudis ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Large sea fans (~ 1 m in height and width), with dense, uniplanar branches that create a mesh-like appearance; conspicuous central stalk. Colouration observed here was exclusively purple; however red, orange, yellow and shades of brown are also common. More sparsely branched colonies can resemble Nicella (Fig. 38).