Solenocaulon fam subsp. gen var. indet, . sp. 2

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

"fam. Ellisellidae" gen. indet. sp. 2

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Ellisellidae sp. 2; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Alcyonacea; family: Ellisellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Gray, 1859; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Astove W 1, D'Arros N 1, Desroches S 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 19.2 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 351 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender , Kaveh Samimi-Namin , Paris Stefanoudis ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Individuals are whip-like, forming single, unbranched colonies growing up to 2 m in height. Distal parts can be straight, heavily bent or coiled. Colour ranges from red to orange, pink, white, orange-yellow with red polyps or red with white polyps. Individuals most likely belong to the genus Junceella or Viminella , but are impossible to distinguish from video footage alone, as identification features might be extremely small and not visible on video footage. However, some might be unbranched colonies of Ellisella or uncoiled colonies of the black wire coral Stichopathes (Fig. 34).