Acanella robusta Thomson & Henderson 1906

• Main Author: France, Scott C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Isididae; Acanella; Acanella robusta; Indian; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6044389; https://zenodo.org/record/6044389

Acanella robusta Thomson & Henderson, 1906 Figure 11 Acanella robusta Thomson & Henderson, 1906: 33; Kükenthal, 1919: 577. Type: Bay of Bengal, Station 325, 18° 18’ N, 93° 25’ E. 843 fathoms depth. Deposited in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. For description see: Thomson & Henderson 1906 Remarks: We found two specimens with Haplotype H and their morphology corresponds to A. robusta (Figure 11). They have prominently tuberculated sclerites, which give the sclerites a textured appearance that is visible to the naked eye, and small rods in the coenenchyme. A. robusta also differs from A. rigida by its large squat base (2 mm) and large, obliquely arranged sclerites that do not reach the whole length of the polyp, as they do in A. rigida . A. robusta is found deeper than A. rigida (1019̄ 1390 m; Figure 3). Distribution: Our collection has expanded the known locations of A. rigida from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal off the coast of Myanmar (Burma) to the Bismark Sea off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The known depth range is expanded to 1019̄ 1542 m. : 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 377, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/919804 : {"references": ["Thomson, J. A. & Henderson, W. D. (1906) An Account of the Alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian marine survey shiP Investigator in the Indian Ocean. I. The Alcyonarians of the deeP sea. The Indian museum, Calcutta, xvi + 132 pp.", "Kukenthal, W. (1919) Gorgonaria. Wissenchaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-EXPedition auf dem DamPfer \" Valdivia \" 1898 \u203e 1899, 13, 1 \u203e 946."]}