taxonID	type	description	language	source
DC72AF1F45FC7DAEB90744C785D28280.taxon	distribution	Distribution. From Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to Brazil, including Bahamas, Greater and Lesser Antilles, and Caribbean islands (Bayer 1961); in the eastern Pacific from southern California to Peru. The genus occurs at depths down to 200 m, but normally found less than 100 m. Muricea midas Bayer, 1959 is the deepest record for the genus in the western Atlantic, 146 m (Bayer 1959); and Muricea galapagensis Deichmann, 1941 in the eastern Pacific, 91 m.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
4013699A90BA1EB0C2967073CA3F7172.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype: YPM 1791 (figured specimen), dry, Bay of Panama, Panama, F. H. Bradley, 1866, no more data. Schizotype: USNM 1130758 (donated by YPM).	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
4013699A90BA1EB0C2967073CA3F7172.taxon	description	Description. The holotype is a 20 cm tall and 12 cm wide colony, the branching is lateral, almost in one plane (Fig. 1 A) candelabrum-like. All branches are thick and rigid with almost the same diameter, 7 - 8 mm, from base to top. Two main branches, subdivide from a 2 cm long stem in secondary branches that remain unbranched up to the top of the colony, or subdivide up to 3 times producing branchlets of almost the same diameter. The branches are up to 20 mm apart, branch at angles of 45 ° - 90 °, and curve upwards, with blunt tips. Undivided terminal ends are up to 7 mm in diameter and 70 mm long (Fig. 1 A-B). A vestige of the holdfast remains at the base of the stem. Axes are amber at the tips and darker at the base. Calyces are uniformly crowding the branches, close together, about 21 calyces / cm. They are up to 2.50 mm long and about the same in width, 1.8 - 2.0 mm. The rounded, small calyx apertures contain remains of anthocodial sclerites. The anthocodia are retracted and the eight projections of the calyces close over them. They are separated by slightly sunken grooves, which show an octoradiate star-like arrangement, that Verrill remarked as typical of this species (Verrill 1869 a) (Fig. 1 B). However, it is the normal condition of polyps in this genus, when retracted. The coenenchyme is thick compared with the other three species. The outer coenenchyme is composed basically by the same type of sclerites found in the calyx. They are spindles of several shapes, mostly unilateral spinous, curved, straight, with blunt or acute ends, or one acute end and the other bifurcate. They are 0.50 - 1.82 mm long and 0.15 - 0.28 mm wide (Fig. 2 A), Verrill (1869 a) reported spindles up to 2 mm long. They are of a light brownish to dark orange colour, some with the outer surface darker than the inner (Fig. 1 C). The axial sheath is composed of pale yellow to colourless (Fig. 1 C), warty elongated spindles 0.15 - 0.30 mm long and 0.060 - 0.085 mm wide (Fig. 2 B), and irregular radiates, up to 0.24 mm long and 0.10 mm wide (Fig. 2 C). Anthocodial sclerites are pale yellow, irregular warty rods with a spinulose end 0.25 - 0.30 mm long and 0.037 - 0.060 mm wide, and small torch-like clubs with a warty handle, measuring up to 0.28 mm long and 0.10 mm wide (Fig. 2 D). The colour of the colony is brown.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
4013699A90BA1EB0C2967073CA3F7172.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Reported only from the type locality, Bay of Panama. This species has not been found in our recent surveys along the Pacific coast of Panama. No data available about the depth range.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
7D4451E0C8DF673F68AAD186D51020CA.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Lectotype (here designated): YPM 567, dry, Panama, no depth given, F. H. Bradley, 1866. Paralectotype: YPM 1790, figured specimen in Verrill 1868, plate VII, fig 4, data as in the lectotype.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
7D4451E0C8DF673F68AAD186D51020CA.taxon	materials_examined	Other material. USNM 49386 (erroneously identified as Eumuricea hispida), dry, Punta Arenas, Isla San Lucas, Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica, M. Valerio, 15 January 1930. USNM 34063 (erroneously identified as this species; it is a species of Muricea), dry, Panama Bay, L. C. Cash, no more data. USNM 1016582, (erroneously identified as Eumuricea hispida), dry, Punta Paitilla, Panama Bay, C. D. Ridder, 14 August 1976.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
7D4451E0C8DF673F68AAD186D51020CA.taxon	description	Description. The lectotype is an 8.5 cm tall and 4 cm wide incomplete colony, branching is sparingly dichotomous (Fig. 3 A). A short stem, 0.4 cm long, arises from a small remainder of the holdfast, and subdivides in two main branches deprived of coenenchyme, one of them is broken and the other subdivides in two secondary branches, 7 - 10 mm in diameter, that subdivide up to 4 times. All branches are almost the same diameter, with blunt, clavate tips. The branches are separated at distances of 0.6 - 5 cm and growing upwards at close angles of 30 ° - 45 °. Undivided terminal branches are up to 20 mm long, and 8 mm in diameter. The axes are dark brown at the base, and amber at the branchlets. The calyces are all around the branches, close together, about 14 calyces / cm. They are tubular and elongated reaching up to 3.5 - 4.0 mm long and up to 1.8 - 2.0 mm wide at the clavate tips; with projecting spines around the polyp apertures (Fig. 3 B). The polyps are situated at the summit of the tubular calyces, the apertures are covered by anthocodial sclerites that represent what remained of the polyps. The coenenchyme is very thin, basically composed by the same type as the calyx sclerites. The outer coenenchyme and calycular spindles are unilateral spinous, spinulose on the outer surface and warty on the inner, 0.90 - 1.60 mm long and 0.14 - 0.20 mm wide, with acute ends, or one acute and the other blunt; others have stout, complex terminal spikes, 0.57 - 0.83 mm long and 0.10 - 0.14 mm wide (Fig. 4 A, B). The axial sheath is composed of warty spindles with sparse warts and / or conical tubercles with acute tips; and irregular rods branched at one end, 0.13 - 0.56 mm long and 0.04 - 0.09 mm wide (Fig. 4 C). The anthocodial sclerites are complex irregular branched forms, thorn scale-like with complex warts on the surface, sparse conical spines and / or with one spinulose end; irregular club-like spindles with warty handlers, straight or curved, and with spinulose, shaft-like heads. These sclerites are 0.26 - 0.70 mm long and 0.05 - 0.03 mm wide (Fig. 4 D). All the sclerites are colourless (Fig. 3 C). The colour of the colony is light brown.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
7D4451E0C8DF673F68AAD186D51020CA.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Panama, Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador (Riess 1929). No data available about the depth range.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
00814C3E0D322DDAFB09DB5C730DFC67.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Plate 3, figs 5 - 8 (Moebius 1861), no material available. Holotype figured. According to Moebius (1861) the holotype was deposited in the Hamburg Museum (ZMH); however, the material was not housed there anymore (P. Stiewe and H. Roggenbuck, ZMH, pers. comm. 2011).	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
00814C3E0D322DDAFB09DB5C730DFC67.taxon	description	Description (after Moebius 1861 and Verrill 1869 a). The figured specimen is a fragment of a 20 cm tall and 22 cm wide colony with a thin, 6 cm diameter holdfast attached to a rock. The branching looks mostly dichotomous and starts close to the base (Fig. 5 [5]). The branches are closely placed and divergent, they subdivide at small angles and up to 6 times. All branches are about the same diameter with slightly tapered ends. Undivided terminal branches are short. The axes are brown at the base, and light yellow at the branchlets. The coenenchyme is granulose and brittle. The calyces are all around the branches, close together. They are mostly standing perpendicular to the branches, closer together and inclined upwards, at smaller angles, at the upper branchlets (Fig. 5 [6]). They are tubular and elongated, up to 1.5 mm long with truncate tips. There is not enough information about the sclerites. They are straight or curved warty spindles reaching up to 1.2 mm long. They are yellow and seem asymmetric, perhaps unilateral spinose as for the genus, but from the drawings it is difficult to tell (Fig. 5 [7, 8]). The colour of the colony is light brown.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
00814C3E0D322DDAFB09DB5C730DFC67.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Reported for Peru, the type locality.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
47CF00273AF24A543F61A7932B73AF1C.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Lectotype (here designated): YPM 1561 a, dry (with sponge), Pearl Islands, Panama, F. H. Bradley, 1866, no further data; YPM 1563 [fragment of lectotype, possible figured specimen (Verrill 1869 a)]. Paralectotypes: MCZ 4975; MCZ 7017; USNM 33592 (YPM 1561); YPM 1561 b-d, YPM 566, data as for the lectotype. YPM 1636 (previously identified as Eumuricea hispida), ethanol preserved, Pearl Islands, F. H. Bradley, 1866, no further data.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
47CF00273AF24A543F61A7932B73AF1C.taxon	materials_examined	Other material. COSTA RICA: UCR 587, dry, Pitaya Beach, Guanacaste, Pacific coast, Costa Rica, 20 - 23 m, J. Cortes, 16 June, 1991; UCR 1742, ethanol preserved, Bajo Negro, Marino Ballena National Park, 25 m, O. Breedy, 13 April 2008; UCR 2261, ethanol preserved, Isla Larga Oeste, Manuel Antonio National Park, 19 m, O. Breedy and H. Guzman, 6 February 2012; UCR 2262, ethanol preserved, Isla Larga, Manuel Antonio National Park, 25 m, O. Breedy and H. Guzman, 7 February 2012; UCR 2396, ethanol preserved, Marino Ballena National Park, 25 m, O. Breedy, 27 April 2002; UCR 2410; 2414, ethanol preserved, La Danta, Santa Elena Bay, 35 m, O. Breedy and Minor Lara, 10 August 2014; UCR 2418 - 2419, ethanol preserved, Bajo Mixta, Golfo Dulce, 21 m, O. Breedy and H. Guzman, 7 February 2009 ECUADOR: IIN 25, dry, Bajo Lunes, Reserva de Produccion Faunistica Marino Costera Puntilla de Santa Elena, 18 m, P. Martinez, F. Rivera, R. Nabot and O. Breedy, 21 July 2010; IIN 47, dry, Gigima, Reserva de Produccion Faunistica Marino Costera Puntilla de Santa Elena, 14 m, P. Martinez, F. Rivera, R. Nabot and O. Breedy, 22 July 2010. PANAMA: STRI 561, 563, 569 - 571, ethanol preserved, Islas Viudas, Chiriqui Gulf, Panama, 20 m, H. Guzman, 18 April 2003; STRI 867 - 868, ethanol preserve, Achotines, Chiriqui Gulf, 10 m, H. Guzman, 5 May 2004; STRI 575 A, ethanol preserved, Isla Saboga, 1 - 5 m, H. Guzman, 14 December 2001. PERU: UPCH-CZA 280, 284, 291, 296, 298, 302, 411, dry, Canoas de Punta Sal, Tumbes, 10 - 13 m, Y. Hooker, 2 July 2011; UPCH-CZA 410, Cabo Blanco, Piura, 10 - 13 m, Y. Hooker, 13 August 2012.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
47CF00273AF24A543F61A7932B73AF1C.taxon	description	Description. The lectotype is a 14 cm tall and 12 cm wide colony, flabellate, spreading in one plane. It has a sponge attached to the main branches (Fig. 6 A). The branching is mostly dichotomous. A short stem, 0.4 cm long, 60 mm diameter, arises from an irregular holdfast, 23 mm in diameter, covered by a layer of coenenchyme, but deprived of calyces. The stem subdivides in two main branches that produce secondary branches subdividing up to 3 times. All branches are about the same in diameter, 40 - 80 mm (including calyces), with tapered ends. The branches are separated at distances of 0.5 - 6 cm and spread at small angles and bend upwards in a curve. The branchlets are situated almost perpendicular to the main branch. Undivided terminal branches are up to 40 mm long. The axes are brown at the base, and lighter at the branchlets. The calyces are all around the branches, close together, about 14 calyces / cm. They are mostly directed perpendicular to the branches, but also incline upwards at small angles (Fig. 6 B). They are tubular and elongated, up to 2.6 mm long and up to 1.75 mm wide with clavate tips, between the larger calyces there are a number of smaller ones (Fig. 6 B). The remains of the polyps are at the summit of the tubular calyces, the apertures are covered by anthocodial sclerites. The coenenchyme has a few layers of sclerites and is basically composed of the same types as the calyx spindles. They are straight or with a slight curvature. They are mostly acute, but can have one end blunt or lobed. They are unilateral spinous with the inner side with complex warts, crowded together so much that their processes anastomose, while on the outer side there are less and sparse spines. Some calycular spindles are club-like with warty elongated handles, straight or curved, and various types of head arrangement, from few conical spines to sharp and long spines crowding the upper part or along the outer side of the sclerite; they have stout terminal spikes (Fig. 7 A). The spindles reach up to 1.3 mm long and 0.23 mm wide (Fig. 7 A), Verrill (1869 a) reported spindles up to 1.8 mm long. They are of a dull yellow to a light brownish colour. The axial sheath is composed of whitish and colourless, tuberculate spindles, 0.14 - 0.30 mm long and 0.03 - 0.075 mm wide (Fig. 7 C) and irregular forms with- the same range of size, and immature forms 0.06 - 0.07 mm long and 0.015 - 0.02 mm wide. The anthocodial sclerites are of a pale yellow colour to colourless, mostly club-like as described for the calycular spindles, but shorter (Fig. 7 B). The colour of the colony light brown.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
47CF00273AF24A543F61A7932B73AF1C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Panama: Gulf of Chiriqui, Pearl Islands, 10 - 20 m. Costa Rica: Nicoya Gulf, Santa Elena Peninsula, Marino Ballena National Park, Golfo Dulce, from 25 - 40 m. Colombia: Malaga Bay (Prahl et al. 1986, specimens in CRBMco). Ecuador: Puntilla de Santa Elena, Salinas 18 - 20 m. Peru: Cabo Blanco, Canoas de Punta Sal, 10 - 13 m deep. Nicaragua: La Flor, Hueco de Diego, South Pacific, 2 - 5 m. The species has a wide bathymetric range from 2 m to 40 m, the deepest range being found in Costa Rica.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
A011C736BC62C22A1F476B58C36774FC.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype: YPM 807, dry, figured specimen, Pearl Islands, Panama, low tide, F. H. Bradley, 1866.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
A011C736BC62C22A1F476B58C36774FC.taxon	description	Description. The holotype is a 17 cm tall and 10 cm wide stout and rigid colony, branching mostly dichotomous (Fig. 9 A). A short stem, 1 cm in diameter, 1.5 cm long, arises from an oval 3 cm diameter holdfast, and subdivides in two main branches, 0.8 - 1.2 mm diameter, that fork producing secondary branches that subdivide up to 3 times. All branches are almost the same diameter with blunt, clavate tips. The branches are at distances of 2 - 7 cm apart and stick upwards at small angles of 30 ° - 35 °. Undivided terminal branches are up to 70 mm long, and 7 - 8 mm in diameter. The axes are dark brown. The calyces are uniformly crowding the branches, close together, about 26 calyces / cm. They are tubular, slender and elongated, up to 5 mm long and up to 0.75 mm wide, with clavate summits. The borders of the calyces are surrounded by long, slender and sharp spindles that project from the surface giving a prickly appearance to the branches (Fig. 9 B). What remains of the polyps is at the summit of the elevated calyces, the apertures are covered by anthocodial sclerites and some calyx sclerites. The coenenchyme is of a few layers of sclerites, basically of the same types as the calyx spindles. They are mostly unilateral spinous spindles, large, slender, with sharp, blunt or bifurcated ends, some are spinulose on the outer surface and tuberculate on the inner, measuring 0.80 - 2.0 mm long and 0.07 - 0.30 mm wide (Fig. 10 A). The calyx wall is mostly formed by warty, slender rods with one end acute and the other with long complex spines These sclerites are 0.435 - 0.76 mm long and 0.50 - 0.65 mm wide, they can have conic spines on the outer side of the sclerite and sparse warts on the inner side (Fig. 10 B). Verrill (1869 a) reported a maximum size of 2.34 mm long. The axial sheath is composed of warty spindles (Fig. 10 C) and tuberculate radiates, 0.12 - 0.46 mm long and 0.1 - 0.4 mm wide (Fig. 10 D). All sclerites are whitish to colourless (Fig. 9 C). The colour of the colony is light brown.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
A011C736BC62C22A1F476B58C36774FC.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Reported only from the type locality, Pearl Islands, Panama. This species has not been found in our recent surveys along the Pacific coast of Panama.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
E30D7B4975C2135FCCFAD68D4276A822.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Colonies branching mostly in one plane, fan-like, dichotomous, pinnate-like, or unbranched. Branches mostly free or with some anastomosing. Polyp mounds conical, prominent, or slightly raised, scattered or crowded, usually biserial and with two opposed polyp mounds at the tip of the branches. Coenenchyme usually thin. Coenenchymal sclerites mainly capstans, radiates and spindles. Thin, sharp and elongated spindles concentrated in the polyp mounds. Anthocodiae with points arrangements of bar-like rods straight or curved, frequently long. Collaret absent or of a few bar-like rods. Axis horny and flexible. Colour of the colonies red, orange, pink, or white.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
4B302C3BA17A2655E86A0CCBC7347767.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis [based on Grasshoff (2000), Fabricius and Alderslade (2001), Hermanlimianto and Ofwegen (2006)]. Colonies growing in one plane as open fans, with irregular lateral branching, never net-like. Polyps retractile into raised calyces, arranged in rows or all around the branches. Coenenchymal sclerites mostly spindles, straight, curved, branched, heavily ornamented with complex tubercles, and prickles; and smaller spindles and some capstans in the inner-coenenchyme. Anthocodiae with numerous flattened sclerites around the tentacle bases and up the tentacles in numerous oblique rows. Collaret does not occur. Colour of the colonies, various hues of red, orange, yellow, whitish or yellowish brown.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
BAF8B9B5D739E5F2E96F44DBB423636F.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype. USNM 25430, ethanol / dry preserved, Point Loma, San Diego, California, Albatross R / V, California Coast Expedition, 166 - 177 m, 15 May 1904.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
BAF8B9B5D739E5F2E96F44DBB423636F.taxon	description	Description (after Nutting 1909: 718). The holotype was a small, roughly flabellate colony, 37 mm long, branching in an irregular manner. The main stem gives off four alternate branches at irregular intervals, the two longest being 13 mm apart. The calyces are low rounded domes, about 1 mm long and 2 mm wide, separated about 2.5 mm from summit to summit. The polyps are completely retracted. " The calycular walls are covered with very hispid spicules (sclerites), which have their edges somewhat overlapping and are, in general, disposed transversely rather than otherwise ". Nutting reports the presence of a collaret and tentacles armed with sharp spindle-shaped sclerites longitudinally arranged, but in chevron at the base of the tentacles. Other type of sclerites are asymmetrical spindles with irregular sharp edges and processes, various types of clubs, scales, stars and double stars. The colour of the colony is whitish to gray.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
BAF8B9B5D739E5F2E96F44DBB423636F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Reported for the type locality Point Loma, California.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
62EF9D0A46FFD3E283B02232D83A0AAB.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype: BM 1933.05.03.094, ethanol preserved, Marble Rock, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar, Andaman Sea. No more data available.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
62EF9D0A46FFD3E283B02232D83A0AAB.taxon	description	Description [see also Thomson and Simpson (1909)]. The holotype is a 9.5 cm tall and 6 cm wide colony. Several stems arise from a spreading holdfast but only one branch ramifies in two secondary branches, the others are broken close to the base (Fig. 13 A, B) that is partially covered by a sponge. The branching is lateral and irregular, predominantly in one plane. Secondary branches subdivide up to 7 times upwards at small angles. Free end branches reach up to 3.5 cm long. The axis is horny and of a light brown colour. The polyps are prominent and distributed longitudinally in two rows at the base of the main branches, but more irregularly and crowded at the upper parts. The calyces are prominent up to 2 mm in diameter and up to 1.5 mm high (Fig. 12 B). The anthocodial sclerites are arranged in collaret and points, " en chevron " at the base of the tentacles. The anthocodiae are completely retractile and show an octoradiate star-like arrangement. The coenenchyme and calyces are composed of whitish and reddish sclerites (Fig. 12 C). They are mostly warty spindles, straight, curved, and branched, mostly with acute ends, and ornamented with complex tubercles and prickles. These spindles measure 0.21 - 1.0 mm long and 0.046 - 0.16 wide (Fig. 13). The anthocodials are warty rods, 0.15 - 0.20 mm long and 0.03 - 0.06 mm wide (Fig. 12 C). The colour of the colony is pale pink with reddish calyces.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
62EF9D0A46FFD3E283B02232D83A0AAB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. From the type locality, Marbel Rock, Mergui Archipelago, Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean. No data available about the depth range.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
A86AA09E843EC0A2FABAE68F1FF43676.taxon	materials_examined	Material. None available.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
A86AA09E843EC0A2FABAE68F1FF43676.taxon	description	Description [based on Thomson and Simpson (1909)]. Thomson and Simpson (1909) described a colony 23 cm tall and 30 cm wide. The branching is irregular, predominantly in one plane. The main stem is sinuous, about 8 mm in diameter arising from a conical holdfast. The branches are tapered at the ends, and the twigs are of almost the same thickness throughout, some are clavate. The axis is horny, composed of thin sheets of gorgonian. The coenenchyme is moderately thin. It is composed of colourless sclerites irregularly arranged at the lower part of the branches and more longitudinally placed at the twigs. The polyps are distributed all around the branches closer at the upper branches and more separated at the lower parts. The anthocodiae are completely retractile into slightly elevated cones, 1 mm in height and 1 mm in diameter at the base. The anthocodial sclerites are arranged in eight distinct groups " en chevron " at the base of the tentacles with projecting teeth around the oral aperture. The coenenchymal sclerites are spindles, straight, curved or S-shaped, with acute or blunt ends, with the surface covered by warts, they measure 0.4 - 1.5 mm long and 0.075 - 0.17 wide. The anthocodiae are club-shaped, with warty heads and smooth handles, 0.3 - 0.6 mm long and 0.05 - 0.1 mm wide. The colour of the colony is a greyish white.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
A86AA09E843EC0A2FABAE68F1FF43676.taxon	distribution	Distribution. From the type locality, Andaman sea, Indian Ocean, 83 - 494 m in depth.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
0ECD0E1EB124CF84FE89D9D990FDF9CD.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype: BM 1933.03.13.024, fragment, ethanol preserved, Campagne 1901, Stn. 1203: 15 ° 54 ' N, 22 ° 54 ' 45 " E, Iles du Cap Vert, 91 m, 18 August 1901.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
0ECD0E1EB124CF84FE89D9D990FDF9CD.taxon	description	Description (see also Thomson 1927). The holotype is a bright red fragment, 3 cm long and 3 cm wide (Fig. 14 A). Thompson (1927) described a 15.5 cm tall colony. The branches are 2 mm in diameter. The axis is amber. The calyces are cones projecting up to 0.75 mm high and about 1 mm in diameter. They are placed all around the branches about 1 mm apart. The coenenchymal sclerites are red and basically warty spindles with acute ends, straight or curved, 0.2 mm- 0.32 mm long and 0.065 mm- 0.087 mm wide, and radiates 0.10 - 0.20 mm long and 0.04 mm- 0.045 mm wide (Fig. 14 B-C). Anthocodial sclerites are flat orange rods in an irregular point and collaret formation. They are 0.050 mm- 0.15 mm long, with lobed or smooth borders (Fig. 14 B). The sizes of sclerites given by Thomson (1927) are smaller than the ones we analysed in the holotype fragment. The colour of the colony is bright red.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
0ECD0E1EB124CF84FE89D9D990FDF9CD.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Reported from the scientific campaigns of Prince Albert 1 st de Monaco in 1901, Station 1203, along Iles du Cap Vert, 15 ° 54 ' N, 22 ° 54 ' 45 " E, Western Atlantic.	en	Breedy, Odalisca, Guzman, Hector M. (2015): A revision of the genus Muricea Lamouroux, 1821 (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) in the eastern Pacific. Part I: Eumuricea Verrill, 1869 revisited. ZooKeys 537: 1-32, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6025
