FIGURE 1 in A revision of the genus Radicipes Stearns, 1883 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae)

FIGURE 1. Schematic repreSentation of a colony of Radicipes. A: groSS morphology of a gorgonian Radicipes spiralis in their natural environment (Nutting, 1908) (NOAA-OkeanoS Explorer, Expedition 1504, leg 2); B: common Sclerite arrangement on polypS; C: relative proportion betWeen different Sclerite claSSeS in Radicipes pleurocristatus StearnS, 1883 (rodS from body Wall, tentacular and pinnular rodS and coenenchymal ScaleS); D: cloSe-up vieW of polyp arrangement in the latter colony; E: coenenchymal deformed ScaleS from the baSe of the colony; F: calcified holdfaSt; G: polypar face in polypar portion; H: abpolypar face in polypar portion; I: Sterile portion (baSal) of the colony (uSually firSt one third of the colony Without polypS). ab: abaxial Side; ad: adaxial Side; Sb: Saddle bag portion (infrabaSal).