Funiculina

Description

General: Mostly reddish-purple with a white rachis, but can appear all white.

Geographic Information

Published depth range: Over 800 m. Because Haliperis and Funiculina are indistinguishable per G. Williams, the morphotype is annotated as Funiculina-Halipetris complex when observed between 600-799 m).

Additional Information

Consulting taxonomist: Gary Williams, California Academy of Science.

Taxonomist assessment: 2008; ID'd from two specimens near MARS node site.

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Williams, G.C. (2001). First record of a bioluminescent soft coral: description of a disjunct population of Eleutherobia grayi (Thomson and Dean, 1921) from the Solomon Islands, with a review of bioluminescence in the octocorallia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 52: 209-225.