Bipinnate Sea Plume Antillogorgia bipinnata

Classification

Gorgoniidae [family]

Antillogorgia [genus] (11)

Antillogorgia [genus] (11)

Recorded on	Curaçao
	Saba Bank

Presence status	Indigenous (1) - Curaçao
	Indigenous (1) - Saba Bank

Notes on presence status	Marine species are considered ubiquitous around the Dutch Caribbean by Macrae et al (2021), but this species has not been recorded yet on Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba.

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Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2023. The marine palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea, Deapoda [sic], Caridea) of the Dutch Caribbean. Zootaxa 5387: 1-127.
MacRae, D.M. & De Meyer, K. 2020. Dutch Caribbean conservation species list. Using management effectiveness to strengthen species conservation in the Caribbean.