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The color of the colony of Muricea crassa is dark brown.
The colonies are up to 50 cm high and up to 40 cm wide, but smaller specimens, about 30 cm high, are the majority.
The branch tips can reach a diameter of up to 15 mm, and the unbranched terminals are up to 13 cm long.
This species is very conspicuous beacause of its dark color and strong and spiny branches with broad terminal tips.
Muricea crassa has been observed in several locations in Panama, around the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panamá, and the deepest records are around Coiba Island in the Gulf of Chiriquí at depths of 20 - 30 meters.
Muricea crassa is not common and is sparsely distributed in patches dominated by other species.
Literature reference:
Graham Edgar Breedy O, Guzman HM (2016)
A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part II.
ZooKeys 581: 1-69. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.581.7910 - #
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7910&display_type=list&element_type=8
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The colonies are up to 50 cm high and up to 40 cm wide, but smaller specimens, about 30 cm high, are the majority.
The branch tips can reach a diameter of up to 15 mm, and the unbranched terminals are up to 13 cm long.
This species is very conspicuous beacause of its dark color and strong and spiny branches with broad terminal tips.
Muricea crassa has been observed in several locations in Panama, around the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panamá, and the deepest records are around Coiba Island in the Gulf of Chiriquí at depths of 20 - 30 meters.
Muricea crassa is not common and is sparsely distributed in patches dominated by other species.
Literature reference:
Graham Edgar Breedy O, Guzman HM (2016)
A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part II.
ZooKeys 581: 1-69. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.581.7910 - #
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7910&display_type=list&element_type=8
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
