FIGURE 21 in Shallow-water black corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia) from SW Madagascar

FIGURE 21. Cirrhipathes cf. spiralis (Linnaeus, 1758). (a) In situ picture of the specimen INV.131371 with well-defined coils. (b–c) In situ pictures of other phenotypes with loose spirals. (d) Section 1.9 mm in diameter of the distal part of the colony pictured in (a). (e) Inner spines which are papillose, conical with a blunt tip slightly knobbed. (f) Longer straight outer spines having the same morphology as the inner spine.Published as part of Terrana, Lucas, Bo, Marzia, Opresko, Dennis M. & Eeckhaut, Igor, 2020, Shallow-water black corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia) from SW Madagascar, pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 4826 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4826.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/440221