Dr. Iris Sampaio, Azoren
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The deep-water sea pen Gyrophyllum hirondellei has been known only from the North Atlantic, from Rosemary Seamount, Rockall Rock Island, and Hatton Banks to the Azores and Bahamas, western Atlantic.
Freshly collected colonies were light brown on the peduncle, rachis, and the section of rachis that has polyp leaves dorsally, but darker brown on the surfaces of the polyps
The sclerites are visible as whitish trabecular structures.
The autozooids themselves were dark brown.
Very little is known about the biology of the deep water sea feather, the photo time the very long trunk/foot into which the sea feather can retract when disturbed.
We thank Dr. Iris Sampaio, Azores, for the first photo of Gyrophyllum hirondellei!
See https://dsbsoc.org/scientist-profiles/meet-the-next-generation-of-deep-sea-researchers-iris-sampaio/
Literature reference:
European Journal of Taxonomy 847: 73-103.
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1983
Pablo J. López-Gózalez, Jim Drewery, Gary C. Williams.
A new family for the enigmatic sea pen genus Gyrophyllum Studer, 1891 (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea), a molecular and morphological approach.
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Freshly collected colonies were light brown on the peduncle, rachis, and the section of rachis that has polyp leaves dorsally, but darker brown on the surfaces of the polyps
The sclerites are visible as whitish trabecular structures.
The autozooids themselves were dark brown.
Very little is known about the biology of the deep water sea feather, the photo time the very long trunk/foot into which the sea feather can retract when disturbed.
We thank Dr. Iris Sampaio, Azores, for the first photo of Gyrophyllum hirondellei!
See https://dsbsoc.org/scientist-profiles/meet-the-next-generation-of-deep-sea-researchers-iris-sampaio/
Literature reference:
European Journal of Taxonomy 847: 73-103.
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.847.1983
Pablo J. López-Gózalez, Jim Drewery, Gary C. Williams.
A new family for the enigmatic sea pen genus Gyrophyllum Studer, 1891 (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea), a molecular and morphological approach.
Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)
