Acanella rigida Wright & Studer 1889 ...

• Main Author: France, Scott C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Isididae; Acanella; Acanella rigida; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6044384; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6044384

Acanella rigida Wright & Studer, 1889 Figure 10 Acanella rigida Wright & Studer, 1889: 31, pl. 9, fig 4; Thomson & Henderson, 1906: 33 Acanella sibogae Nutting, 1910: 14, pl. 3, figs, 2, 2a. pl. 5 fig 4; Kükenthal, 1915: 120; Kükenthal, 1924: 419; Grant, 1976: 26, figs. 23¯24; Bayer, 1990: 212, fig 5 Acanella jaPonica Kükenthal, 1915: 120; Kükenthal, 1919: 582, pl. 44, fig. 76; Grant, 1976: 25, figs. 20¯21 Type: Collected via dredge. Station 194, off Banda Islands, Indonesia. 220 fathoms depth. Deposited in the Natural History Museum, London. Reg no. 1889.5.27.22. For description see: Wright & Studer 1889 Remarks: Specimens with Haplotype E (Figure 10) match the description of A. rigida, with tall (4̄ 5 mm) polyps and long (3̄ 5 mm) curved fusiform sclerites that extend the length of the polyp, twisting around the body and protruding past the base of the tentacles. The sclerites are irregular in shape, large and all have more-or-less well-developed tubercles. A. rigida, A. robusta, and A. ... : 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 page 376, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/919804 ...