Acanella aurelia France 2017, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: France, Scott C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Isididae; Acanella; Acanella aurelia; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6044395; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6044395

Acanella aurelia sp. nov. Figures 13 and 14 Material examined: Holotype: Collected via trawl aboard R/ V Pelican, 250 km west of Clearwater, Florida, USA 27.7523, -85.3262. 657̄ 815 m depth. 7 July 2006. Station NSF-III-0 72. Deposited in the National Museum of Natural History USNM 1416575. GenBank accession # GQ245889, KX 270218. Diagnosis: Acanella with upright (2̄ 3 mm) polyps with obliquely arranged, long (2̄ 3 mm), thick (100 µm) sclerites at the distal end of the polyp, which extend beyond base of contracted tentacles by up to 1 mm. Primary branching occurs at node in a whorl of two to four branches and secondary branching occurs dichotomously; nodes yellow-golden color. Description: Colony bush-like with primary branching at nodes in a whorl of two to four branches and secondary dichotomous branching. Holotype is only a fragment of a colony, 5 cm tall and missing the base (Figure 13). Internodes cream to white in color, thin and delicate, measuring 0.5̄ 2 cm in length with shorter internodes being ... : 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 379, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/919804 ...