Coralliidae ...

Key to the species of Coralliidae from the Atlantic Ocean (modified from Bayer 1964) 1 Autozooids retractile within short, hemispherical cortical mounds; long spindles in the tentacles absent... 2 (Fig. 2, 5 A, 8A) - Autozooids contractile, forming prominent cylinders when contracted; long spindles...

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Main Authors: Tu, Tzu-Hsuan, Altuna, Álvaro, Jeng, Ming-Shiou
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Published: Zenodo 2015
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5619925
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5619925
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Summary:Key to the species of Coralliidae from the Atlantic Ocean (modified from Bayer 1964) 1 Autozooids retractile within short, hemispherical cortical mounds; long spindles in the tentacles absent... 2 (Fig. 2, 5 A, 8A) - Autozooids contractile, forming prominent cylinders when contracted; long spindles in the tentacles present..5 (Fig. 10 A, B) 2 Cortical mounds distributed on all sides of the colony; double clubs absent in cortex; live colonies with cortex and axis usually red.......................................................................................... C. rubrum - Cortical mounds distributed predominantly on one side of the colony; double clubs abundant in cortex; live colonies with cortex white, yellow or pinkish; axis yellowish or white.......................................................... 3 3 Elongated 8-radiates (Fig. 9 Ae, Be; higher than 0.1 mm) in both cortex and cortical mounds present; double clubs wider than high (0.027 × 0.034 – 0.041 × 0.064 ... : Published as part of Tu, Tzu-Hsuan, Altuna, Álvaro & Jeng, Ming-Shiou, 2015, Coralliidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the INDEMARES 2010 expedition to north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic), with delimitation of a new species using both morphological and molecular approaches, pp. 301-328 in Zootaxa 3926 (3) on page 324, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/194588 ...