Tjalfiella tristoma Mortensen 1910 ...

• Main Authors: Bezio, Nicholas, Collins, Allen G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Ctenophora; Tentaculata; Platyctenida; Tjalfiellidae; Tjalfiella; Tjalfiella tristoma; Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13238743; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13238743

Species Tjalfiella tristoma Mortensen, 1910 Fig. 6, 8 Grammatical gender— feminine Etymology— From the feminine noun in apposition formed from Latin tri, “three,” and stoma, “openings.” This name refers to the specimen’s three-body orifices, the mouth, and one opening for each aboral arm. Pronunciation— Phonetic; “Chae-l-fe-el-ah” “try-stoh-ma” IPA; /tˈiːd͡Ʒˌaelfɪˈɛlə tɹɪstˈo͡ʊmə/ Material— Seven samples of T. tristoma from the Natural History Museum in Denmark (NHMD88841) and references to Mortensen’s original description and illustrations in his 1912 manuscript “The Danish Ingolf Expedition: TJalfiella tristoma n. g., n. sp. A sessile ctenophore from Greenland”: 249–253, plates. 1–10. Description Body— Benthic ctenophore, compressed in the stomodeal axis; and “U” shaped in the tentacular axis; two large highly extendable aboral arms that lack oral grooves on opposing sides of body; distal ends of arms flattened into a disk, contains two openings, a singular gastric accessory opening with serrated edges, ... : Published as part of Bezio, Nicholas & Collins, Allen G., 2024, Redescription of the deep-sea benthic ctenophore genus Tjalfiella from the North Atlantic (Class Tentaculata, Order Platyctenida, Family Tjalfiellidae), pp. 241-266 in Zootaxa 5486 (2) on pages 252-256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13209847 ...