Parasphaerasclera grayi Thomson & Dean 1931 ...

• Main Authors: Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip, Vargas, Sergio
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Parasphaerascleridae; Parasphaerasclera; Parasphaerasclera grayi; White Island; Holdfast; Black Rocks
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3510615; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3510615

Parasphaerasclera grayi (Thomson & Dean, 1931) new record (Figs. 2A,B, 3, 4; Tabs. 1, 2) Nidalia grayi Thomson & Dean, 1931: 37, Pl. 2, Fig. 2. Eleutherobia grayi Verseveldt & Bayer 1988: 33 –34, Figs. 24, 25; Williams 2001: 210–216, Figs. 1–10. Benayahu et al. 2004: 550 (recorded only); Dautova & Savinkin 2009: 4 –10, Figs. 3–7. Parasphaerasclera grayi McFadden & Ofwegen 2013: 70, 71, 78. Material examined. WAM Z54774, six whole specimens, Station 69/K11, unnamed outcrop NW Black Rocks, close to White Island, NW Australia, 14.9741° S, 124.3974° E, SCUBA, depth 12 m, coll. M. Bryce, 17 October 2011. Description. In total six upright, unbranched colonies were collected. They are digitiform, symmetrical with a wide base tapering distally towards the rounded apex of the polyparium (Fig. 2A,B) and were always growing in pairs, arising from a common, polyp-free, one mm thick, encrusting holdfast. The colonies vary in size, but are in general very similar in shape, colour, arrangement of polyps ... : Published as part of Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, pp. 160-200 in Zootaxa 3963 (2) on pages 163-166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/288659 ...