Growth in cold-water octocorals: rates, morphology and environmental controls... While most studies have been focusing on growth rates of gorgonians, few studies have examined rates and patterns in other octocorals, such as sea pens....
Distribution modelling of sea pens, sponges, stalked tunicates and soft corals from research vessel survey data in the gulf of st. lawrence for use in the identification of significant benthic areas... Occurrence models performed very well for sea pens and stalked tunicates and better than those for soft corals and sponges, with cross-validated AUC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve) values ranging...
Species found on the sea pens anthoptilum grandiflorum and halipteris finmarchica during the present study (2006–2007)....multidentata.Species found on the sea pens Anthoptilum grandiflorum and Halipteris finmarchica during the present study (2006–2007).
Morphology and composition of the internal axis in two morphologically contrasting deep-water sea pens (cnidaria: octocorallia)Umbellula encrinus Linnaeus, 1758 and Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879) are two species of deep-water sea pens (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) commonly found in the Northwest Atlantic....
