Antipathes nilanduensis, Cooper, 1903

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

Antipathes nilanduensis sp. inc. Cooper, 1903

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Antipathes nilanduensis ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa-Hexacorallia; order: Antipatharia ; family: Antipathidae ; genus: Antipathes ; scientificNameAuthorship: Cooper, 1903; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: North Male’ ; minimumDepthInMeters: 60; maximumDepthInMeters: 60; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Erika Gress; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Colonies are branching and mostly grow in a single pane with densely packed, fine branches. Colony height ~ 13 cm (Fig. 117).