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Preserved colonies are a pale grey color with pale brown 

 autozooids. The species has been reported from the northeast 

 Atlantic and from the Caribbean. Its depth range is 15 to 

 550 fm. One specimen of S.elegans was recovered in a dredge taken 

 at approximately 600 m in Lydonia Canyon. This is the first 

 record of this species from the northeast coast of the United 

 States. 



Baltioina finmarohioa (Sars) 



Virgularia finmar'ohiaa^ Sars, 1851 



Baltioina finmarohiaaj Gray, 1870:13 



Baltioina finmarohioat Verrill, 1882:311; 1883:4 



Baltioina finmarohioa^ Deichmann, 1936:279 



The long slender colonies of Baltioina finmarohioa can reach 



a height of 60 cm or more. The colonies resemble those of 



Anthoptilum grandiflorutn - particularly in the arrangement of 



the autozooids which are grouped bilaterally into two series 



of obliquely angled rows of 1-5 polyps each. Each row converges 



distally with one from the opposite side of the rachis. However, 



in B. finmarohioa the number of polyps per row increases in 



size; thus on younger colonies, or on the lower portions of 



older ones, the autozooids will occur singly, and higher up in 



pairs, on either side of the rachis. The autozooids are also 



characterized by a calyx, up to 8 mm long, whose margin is formed 



into one or two sharpely pointed lobes. Around the bases of the 



autozooids in each row, the rachis is raised up into a leaf-like 



ridge of tissue. The siphonozooids are scattered irregularly 



