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The benthic deep-water coral fauna of the Shiribeshi Seamount, Japan, was examined using the JAMSTEC video archives of four submersible dives in July 2001. An observational dataset containing n = 2055 records was obtained. The vertical distributions of the deep-water gorgonians Family Primnoidae and Paragorgiidae were determined. Primnoid corals include at least one species, Primnoa resedaeformis pacifica (Kinoshita, 1907) and are distributed between 1030 m and 271 m in depth and at a water temperature of 0.24–1.11°. Paragorgiid corals were observed between 491 m and 178 m in depth and at a water temperature of 0.66–1.69°, in shallower and warmer areas than primnoid species. It was observed that deep-sea gorgonians on the Shiribeshi Seamount in the North-West Pacific region exhibit family zonation and vertical distribution patterns. The distribution of hydrocorals, unidentified sponges, shrimp, and nudibranchs was also recorded. This is the first report on a deep-sea gorgonian coral community inhabiting Japanese waters.
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Matsumoto, A.K. (2005). Recent observations on the distribution of deep-sea coral communities on the Shiribeshi Seamount, Sea of Japan. In: Freiwald, A., Roberts, J.M. (eds) Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Erlangen Earth Conference Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27673-4_17
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