A coral among stars: A new octocoral family (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Malacalcyonacea) from seamounts in the tropical eastern Pacific

作者：Odalisca Breedy, Catherine S. McFadden, Catalina Murillo‐Cruz, Ana‐Belen Yánez‐Suárez, Katleen Robert, Andrea M. Quattrini · 发表于：Global Biodiversity Information Facility · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.15468/wb7gng · 研究领域：Biology、Paleontology、Evolutionary biology、Geology、Geography、Oceanography、Zoology

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Breedy, Odalisca, McFadden, Catherine S., Murillo-Cruz, Catalina, Yánez-Suárez, Ana-Belén, Robert, Katleen, Quattrini, Andrea M. (2026): A coral among stars: A new octocoral family (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Malacalcyonacea) from seamounts in the tropical eastern Pacific. ZooKeys 1283: 253-272, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1283.191899AbstractExisting studies highlight the remarkable diversity of life forms inhabiting deep-sea environments, despite the extreme conditions that characterize them. Here, a new family of gorgonian octocorals is described using an integrative taxonomic approach, combining morphological and genetic evidence. The organisms were obtained from seamounts off the insular shelf of Isla del Coco and three geological features of the Costa Rica Pacific margin, during two expeditions using the ROV SuBastian at depths of 360– 529 m. Laurinqueidae fam. nov. is characterized by large irregular-flabellate colonies, with branching that is irregularly lateral, dense, and occasionally anastomosing. Thin coenenchyme includes a sclerome composed of rods and spindles with simple or complex tubercles; the axial sheath has rods and radiates. Polyps are tubular and conspicuously elongated, partially retractile into short cylindrical or dome-shaped mounds and arranged all around the branches. The anthocodiae have tuberculate rods and spindles arranged as points and an inconspicuous collaret....