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Alloptilella moseleyi forms feathery, elongated, and upright colonies.
The sea feather has autozooids with cups, up to 28 in number in the largest polyps.
Color
The preserved colony is red, depending on the density of the dark red sclerites.
Red sclerites occur in the dorsal track, the polyp leaves, the autozooid cups, the pharynx, the mesozooids, the siphonozooids, and the aboral side of the tentacles.
Sclerites from the stem are reddish at the upper parts and light red to translucent at the middle and proximal ends
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There are currently no photos of a living sea feather.
Synonym: Pennatula moseleyi Kölliker, 1880 · unaccepted (New combination)
Literature reference:
López-González, Pablo.
(2022). Molecular phylogeny and morphological comparison of the deep-sea genus Alloptilella Li, Zhan & Xu, 2021 (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea).
Marine Biodiversity. 52. 10.1007/s12526-022-01260-w.
License CC BY 4.0
The sea feather has autozooids with cups, up to 28 in number in the largest polyps.
Color
The preserved colony is red, depending on the density of the dark red sclerites.
Red sclerites occur in the dorsal track, the polyp leaves, the autozooid cups, the pharynx, the mesozooids, the siphonozooids, and the aboral side of the tentacles.
Sclerites from the stem are reddish at the upper parts and light red to translucent at the middle and proximal ends
.
There are currently no photos of a living sea feather.
Synonym: Pennatula moseleyi Kölliker, 1880 · unaccepted (New combination)
Literature reference:
López-González, Pablo.
(2022). Molecular phylogeny and morphological comparison of the deep-sea genus Alloptilella Li, Zhan & Xu, 2021 (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea).
Marine Biodiversity. 52. 10.1007/s12526-022-01260-w.
License CC BY 4.0
