Leptogorgia cofrini Breedy & Guzman, 2005

Published, First, 2007, A revision of the genus Leptogorgia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae) in the eastern Pacific, Zootaxa 1419, pp. 1-90 : 28

Leptogorgia cofrini Breedy & Guzman, 2005

(Fig. 36A, 65)

Leptogorgia cofrini . Breedy & Guzman, 2005: 3–9.

Material examined. Holotype: UCR 398A, preserved, Islas Tortugas, Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica, 1.5 m, J. Cortés, 18 July 1985.

Other material examined: PANAMA: ZMUC-ANT 129 q, s, u, v, Taboguilla Island , 5 m , T. Mortensen, 2 November 1915 .

Diagnosis (according to Breedy & Guzman 2005). Small, white colonies, up to 7 cm in length, and 5 cm in width. Axis cylindrical. Growth form upright, branching abundant, and in multiple planes with a single stem, reaching up to 3 mm in height before branching, or multiple stems (up to 4). Polyps sparsely placed all around branches, fully retractile. Sclerites colourless, and mostly capstans, up to 0.09 mm in length, and spindles, up to 0.12 mm in length, and long anthocodial rods up to 0.14 mm in length. The illustrated specimen is a colony 7.0 cm in length, and 6.0 cm in width.

Description. Full description in Breedy & Guzman 2005.

Distribution. Islas Tortugas, Golfo de Nicoya: type locality. Commonly found along the Pacific coasts of Costa Rica, and Panama ( Table 2, Fig. 65).