Figure 7 in Two sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) from the Southern Ocean with evidence of a deep-sea, polar lineage of burrowing sea anemones

• Main Authors: Gusmão, Luciana C., Rodríguez, Estefanía
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Actiniaria; Halcampoididae; Scytophorus; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5752642; https://zenodo.org/record/5752642

Figure 7. Internal anatomy and microanatomy of Scytophorus striatus. A, micro-CT scan of longitudinal section through flattened pedal disc; note absence of basilar musculature (arrows); B, cross-section through mid-scapus showing area between furrows; note body layers and bilayered cuticle (indicated by arrow); C, histological longitudinal section through distal column showing strong, circular endodermal musculature; D, detail of distal scapus showing high muscle processes of strong, circular endodermal musculature (indicated by arrow); E, histological longitudinal section through tentacle showing ectodermal longitudinal musculature; F, micro-CT longitudinal scan through a whole specimen showing flattened pedal disc, actinopharynx, tentacles and gastrovascular cavity; note foreign material attached to epidermis of column and pedal disc; G, micro-CT scanning through distal column showing actinopharynx and two indistinct siphonoglyph (indicated by asterisks); H, cross-section through mid-scapus showing 14 macrocnemes (indicated by numbers) arranged in seven pairs; I, histological cross-section through mid-scapus showing arrangement of mesenteries in seven pairs (indicated by numbers); J, micro-CT cross-section scan through scapulus showing 14 mesenteries; K, micro-CT cross-section scan through distal scapus showing actinopharynx and weak siphonoglyphs (indicated by asterisks); note weak parietobasilar musculature of extra mesentery (indicated by arrow); L, micro-CT cross-section scan through proximal column; note all 14 mesenteries with gonads (= macrocnemes); M, detail of retractor of macrocneme with pennon distally (indicated by asterisk); N, detail of strong parietobasilar musculature of macrocneme; O, detail of macrocneme with both oocytes and spermatic cysts. Abbreviations: ac, actinopharynx; d, directive pair; ep, epidermis; ga, gastrodermis; gc, gastrovascular cavity; me, mesoglea; pd, pedal disc; t, tentacles. Scale bars: A, E, M, N, 0.2 mm; O, 0.3 mm; B, F, 4 mm; C, D, 1 mm; G–L, 2 mm. : Published as part of Gusmão, Luciana C. & Rodríguez, Estefanía, 2021, Two sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) from the Southern Ocean with evidence of a deep-sea, polar lineage of burrowing sea anemones, pp. 1392-1415 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 1404, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa176, http://zenodo.org/record/5752621