Tanacetipathes hirta, 85-100 m Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico. Photograph courtesy of NOAA-FGBNMS/UNCW-UVP. Identifications by D. Opresko. Specimens from the Flower Garden Banks have slightly larger skeletal spines than those of most specimens collected outside the Gulf of Mexico. For more information see: Opresko DM, Nuttall MF, Hickerson EL (2016). Black corals of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Gulf of Mexico Science 2016(1): 47-67.
