Muricea fruticosa, SBMNH 265945. Colony measures ~7.5 cm × 4.0 cm. Visible in image is the pale cream/yellow base/lower trunk; trunk intensifies and darkens to brownish orange towards branch tips. Notice swollen appearance of branch tips.

 
 
  Part of: Horvath EA (2019) A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part II: Species of Holaxonia, families Gorgoniidae and Plexauridae. ZooKeys 860: 67-182. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.860.33597