Anthoptilidae Kolliker 1880 ...

• Main Authors: Risaro, Jessica, Abstract, Daniel Lauretta
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Pennatulacea; Anthoptilidae; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10417400; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10417400

Family Anthoptilidae Kölliker, 1880 Diagnosis (from Williams 1990): Long, slender and bilateral colonies. Conspicuous and non-retractile autozooids, growing in longitudinal rows along the rachis, without calyces. Numerous siphonozooids growing on the rachis, between the autozooids. Sclerites absent, only very few oval plates in the peduncle. Internal axis along the entire colony, cylindrical, sometimes quadrangular in cross-section. Strong peduncle of 1/5 of the total colony in length. Included genera: Anthoptilum Kölliker, 1880. Type genus: Anthoptilum. Distribution: Cosmopolitan (North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans). From intertidal waters to approximately 3200 m depth (Williams 2011). Anthoptilum Kölliker, 1880 Type species: Anthoptilum thomsoni Kölliker, 1880 (= Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879)). Valid species: Anthoptilum grandiflorum (Verrill, 1879); Anthoptilum murrayi Kölliker, 1880; Anthoptilum decipens Thomson & Henderson, 1906; Anthoptilum ... : Published as part of Risaro, Jessica & Abstract, Daniel Lauretta, 2023, Sea Pens (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Pennatuloidea) From The Mar Del Plata Submarine Canyon And Outskirts, pp. 401-433 in Zootaxa 5389 (4) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10417392 ...