Acanella Gray 1870 ...

• Main Author: France, Scott C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Isididae; Acanella; Holdfast; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6044375; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6044375

Genus Acanella Gray, 1870 Acanella Gray, 1870: 16; Verrill, 1883: 13; Studer & Wright, 1887: 44; Wright & Studer, 1889: xliii, 29; Nutting, 1910: 14; Kükenthal, 1919: 573; 1924: 414; Deichmann, 1936: 243; Bayer, 1956: F222; Grant, 1976: 25; Bayer, 1981: 941 (in key); Bayer & Stefani, 1987a: 51 (in key); Bayer & Stefani, 1987b: 941 (in key); Bayer, 1990: 210; Dueñas et al. 2014: 6. Isidella: Muzik, 1978: 737 (part) Type species: Mopsea arbusculum Johnson, 1862 Diagnosis: Bush-like colonies, branched dichotomously or in whorls, one to six branches at each node. Colonies moderate in size (rarely more than 20 cm) when anchored in soft substrate by lobate holdfast, larger (possibly to 1 m in height) and compressed when attached to hard bottom; internodes solid, short (to 2 cm) and covered with thin coenenchyme. Polyps non-retractile with a narrower base and wider at the mouth, or more or less cylindrical, and perpendicular or angled towards the branch. Polyps armed with sparsely prickly needles ... : Published as part of France, Scott C., 2017, A taxonomic review of the genus Acanella (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Isididae) in the North Atlantic Ocean, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 359-390 in Zootaxa 4323 (3) on pages 368-369, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/919804 ...