Table 1 in Morphology and phylogenetic analysis of two new deep-sea species of Chrysogorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Chrysogorgiidae) from Kocebu Guyot (Magellan seamounts) in the Pacific Ocean

Table 1. Comparison of Chrysogorgia species with planar structure. “–” means missing data.
Characters/SpeciesC. binata sp. nov.C. chryseisC. desbonniC. electraC. pinnataC. scintillansC. stellataC. upsiloniaGroup typeCBACACBDColony shapebiflabellatebiflabellatebiflabellatebiflabellateflabellatebiflabellate or multiflabellatemultiflabellateflabellateInternode length (mm)5-953-46-123-3.56-78-104-30Polyp height (mm)3-5up to 2up to 2.81.75-2.00up to 2.8up to 2.752-4up to 4Eight points beneath the tentaclesshort and bluntlong and sharpinconspicuousinconspicuousinconspicuousshort and bluntlong and sharpinconspicuousSclerites in body wallscales various shape with low and broad marginal lobesscales terete, tapering smoothly toward pointed ends with weak and broad marginal lobesspindles often curved, somewhat flattenedscales elongate with narrow prominent marginal lobesrods elongate with flattened tipsscales various shape with low and broad marginal lobesscales terete with broad marginal lobesspindles tuberculateMaximum length of scale in body wall (mm)0.930.70.750.60.560.651.10.67Sclerites in tentaclesscalesrods and scalesrods and scalesscalesrodsscalesrods and scalesscalesMaximum length of rods in tentacles (mm)0.650.30.24-0.21-0.50.16Scale shape in coenenchymemainly slipper shapevarious shape with prominent marginal lobeselongate, warty with irregular marginselongate, tapered with prominent marginal lobesrelatively smooth with finely serrate edgesmainly slipper shapeelongate with more or less marginal lobeswith serrate marginsNematozooids on stem and large branchesabsentabsent-absent-absentconspicuous-DistributionWestern PacificWestern PacificWestern AtlanticWestern PacificEastern PacificCentral and Eastern PacificCentral PacificSouth AtlanticReferencesPresent studyBayer and Stefani 1988Cairns 2001Bayer and Stefani 1988Cairns 2007Bayer and Stefani 1988, Cairns 2018Nutting 1908, Bayer and Stefani 1988Cordeiro et al. 2015