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The holotype and paratypes of Adelogorgia adusta were collected in Hannibal Bank, Panama, at depths ranging from 73 meters to 94 meters, using the submersible Nadir, M / V Alucia, on April 9 and April 13, 2015.
The holotype is a bushy colony, 11 cm long and 12 cm wide, the branching is mostly lateral and in several levels, up to four pieces.
The colonies of the gorgonian are bushy, laterally branched, without anastomoses, the branches are of almost uniform thickness, about 3-4 mm in diameter with broad tips up to 4.5 mm in diameter.
A colony may be branched up to 10 times, the polyps are distributed around the branches, they are fully retractable and form slightly elevated polyp mounds with circular polyp openings.
The colonies examined were bright red, their sclerites red, orange, whitish to translucent and bicolored.
The paratype STRI-HH 1307 is a 10 x 10 cm colony that is more openly branched than the holotype and mostly branches in two planes.
It has a small black corolla at the base. Barnacles have been found in some branches of the holotype and paratype STRI-HH 1307.
Habitat and distribution. The species was found in Hannibal Bank on rocky substrates influenced by currents.
Adelogorgia adusta is known only from the Hannibal Bank type locality.
Etymology. The species name "adusta" is a Latin adjective meaning "burned, scorched, charred," alluding to the scorched appearance the colony assumes after fixation. The word "adustus", in Castilian adusto, was mentioned in verse 62 of the fable of Polifemo and Galatea (Spanish poet Luis de Góngora), which refers to the son of Pirineo (Giant Mountain), which is said to have burst into flames.
The holotype is a bushy colony, 11 cm long and 12 cm wide, the branching is mostly lateral and in several levels, up to four pieces.
The colonies of the gorgonian are bushy, laterally branched, without anastomoses, the branches are of almost uniform thickness, about 3-4 mm in diameter with broad tips up to 4.5 mm in diameter.
A colony may be branched up to 10 times, the polyps are distributed around the branches, they are fully retractable and form slightly elevated polyp mounds with circular polyp openings.
The colonies examined were bright red, their sclerites red, orange, whitish to translucent and bicolored.
The paratype STRI-HH 1307 is a 10 x 10 cm colony that is more openly branched than the holotype and mostly branches in two planes.
It has a small black corolla at the base. Barnacles have been found in some branches of the holotype and paratype STRI-HH 1307.
Habitat and distribution. The species was found in Hannibal Bank on rocky substrates influenced by currents.
Adelogorgia adusta is known only from the Hannibal Bank type locality.
Etymology. The species name "adusta" is a Latin adjective meaning "burned, scorched, charred," alluding to the scorched appearance the colony assumes after fixation. The word "adustus", in Castilian adusto, was mentioned in verse 62 of the fable of Polifemo and Galatea (Spanish poet Luis de Góngora), which refers to the son of Pirineo (Giant Mountain), which is said to have burst into flames.
