Distichopora violacea ...

• Main Authors: Chakraborty, Oishinee, Raghunathan, C., Chandra, Kailash
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Craggy Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5966495; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5966495

Distichopora violacea (Pallas, 1766) (Fig. 2) For an exhaustive list of synonyms, refer to Boschma (1959) and Cairns (1983). Material examined. One specimen 71 mm high and 112 mm wide, Rifleman Island (11.513950°N 92.646117°E), South Andaman, 06.xi.2015, 15 m deep (ZSI/ANRC-15940); one specimen 44 mm high and 68 mm wide, Craggy Island (13.226467°N 93.057450°E), North Andaman, 21.vii.2016, 8 m deep (ZSI/ANRC-15944); one specimen 19 mm high and 21 mm wide, Nancowry Island (07.997367°N 93.509483°E), Nicobar, 22.xii.2015, 20 m deep (ZSI/ANRC-15946). Description. Colonies fan shaped. Branches blunt tipped in the plane of fan. Colony base usually broad and encrusting. Coenosteum violet, some with white faded tips. Coenosteum structure variable; tuberculate to linearimbricate. Gastropores and dactylopores do not form distinct cyclosystems but are arranged in pore rows restricted to lateral branches and sometimes occur on branch faces near base. Gastropores arranged unilinearly, flanked by dactylopores (Fig. 2c). ... : Published as part of Chakraborty, Oishinee, Raghunathan, C. & Chandra, Kailash, 2018, New record of Hydrozoa Distichopora violacea (Pallas, 1766) (Anthoathecata: Stylasteridae) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, pp. 439-442 in Zootaxa 4508 (3) on pages 439-440, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/2607300 ...