Hernández Osvaldo, Gómez-Gutiérrez Jaime, Sánchez Carlos
Departamento de Ciencias Marinas y Costeras, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Carretera al sur km 5.5, CP 23080, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico Instituto Politécnico Nacional La Paz Mexico.
Departamento de Plancton y Ecología Marina, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Av. IPN, s/n, CP 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur La Paz Mexico.
Zookeys. 2021 Feb 12;1017:1-20. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1017.50619. eCollection 2021.
Three new sea fan species of were discovered during multiple scuba diving expeditions along the Gulf of California coast and islands. is distributed in the southern region of the gulf (Mexican Province), inhabiting tropical rocky reefs of the Islas Marías Archipelago (Nayarit) and Bahía Banderas (Jalisco). This species has small colonies (< 7 cm height) with at least five clearly distinct chromotypes. was found exclusively on the rocky reefs of San Pedro Mártir and San Esteban Islands located in the northern region of the Gulf of California (northern region of Cortez Province). is distributed from the south to the northern region of the Gulf of California (Cortez Province), inhabiting substrates of rocky reefs, sandy and pebbly sea floors. Comprehensive ecological diving expeditions to identify and classify octocorals in the Mexican Pacific (1995-2019) indicate that and are likely to be micro-endemics and is endemic to the Gulf of California, which defines their currently known biogeographic distribution ranges.
在沿加利福尼亚湾海岸和岛屿进行的多次水肺潜水探险中，发现了三种新的海扇物种。[物种一]分布在海湾的南部地区（墨西哥省），栖息于玛丽亚斯群岛（纳亚里特）和班德拉斯湾（哈利斯科州）的热带岩石礁。该物种有小群体（高度小于7厘米），至少有五种明显不同的色型。[物种二]仅在位于加利福尼亚湾北部地区（科尔特斯省北部地区）的圣佩德罗·马丁和圣埃斯特万岛的岩石礁上发现。[物种三]分布于加利福尼亚湾（科尔特斯省）的南部至北部地区，栖息于岩石礁、沙质和卵石海底。在墨西哥太平洋地区进行的旨在识别和分类八放珊瑚的全面生态潜水探险（1995 - 2019年）表明，[物种一]和[物种二]可能是微特有种，[物种三]是加利福尼亚湾的特有种，这确定了它们目前已知的生物地理分布范围。
