Deltocyathus eccentricus Cairns 1979 ...

• Main Author: Altuna, Álvaro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae; Deltocyathus; Deltocyathus eccentricus; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146148; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6146148

Deltocyathus eccentricus Cairns, 1979 (Figs. 3 A–B, tables 1−3) Deltocyathus eccentricus Cairns, 1979: 98, pl. 18, figs. 8−11.—Zibrowius 1980: 86, pl. 40, figs. A–M, pl. 41, figs. A–N.— Cairns & Chapman 2001: 35 (tab. 1).—Brito & Ocaña 2004: 385, pl. 83, figs. A–E.—Kitahara & Cairns 2009: 235 (tab. 1). Material examined. Galicia Bank: Stn. G 4, 750 m, six specimens, one of them dead; Stn. V 4, 732 m, 71 specimens, three of them dead; Stn. V 5, 877 m, 40 specimens, five of them dead; Stn. V 8, 780 m, two specimens alive and a fragment of a dead specimen. Description. Corallum free and solitary (H= 0.41−0.51 cm, average= 0.45 cm for n= 30; GCD= 1.0− 1.36 cm, average= 1.22 cm for n=30, stn. V4), light, fragile, discoidal to faintly patellate. Base flat to slightly conical with a minute pointed elevation in the epicentre of base. Base costate; costae thin, delicate and finely granular, more developed near calicular margin, arranged according to the formula C1–2>C3>C4. Calices slightly ... : Published as part of Altuna, Álvaro, 2013, Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from ECOMARG 2003, 2008 and 2009 expeditions to bathyal waters off north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic), pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 3641 (2) on pages 110-111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217798 ...