Stephanocyathus crassus Jourdan 1895 ...

• Main Author: Altuna, Álvaro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Caryophylliidae; Stephanocyathus; Stephanocyathus crassus; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146157; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6146157

Stephanocyathus crassus (Jourdan, 1895) (Figs. 4 A–F, tables 1−3) Stephanocyathus crassus Jourdan, 1895: 21, pl. 2, figs. 17−19.—Zibrowius 1980: 100, pl. 50, figs. A–L, pl. 107, fig. K.— Ramil Blanco & Fernández Pulpeiro 1990: 27.—Cairns & Chapman 2001: 37 (tab. 1).—Brito & Ocaña 2004: 394, pl. 86, figs. A–B.—Reveillaud et al. 2008: 322 (tab. 1), 325 (fig. 4).—Altuna 2010: 21. Material examined. Galicia Bank: Stn. G 4, 750 m, one specimen; Stn. V 4, 732 m, two specimens; Stn. V 6, 766 m, one specimen; Stn. R 2, 614 m, one specimen. Description. Corallum solitary, unattached, stout, discoidal to patellate. Largest specimen examined has GCD= 3.77 cm and H= 1.4 cm (stn. V6, including septa); smallest has GCD= 2.52 cm and H= 0.71 cm (stn. V4). Base light brown, more or less flat, sometimes irregular as a consequence of regeneration, with a minute central pointed pedicel. Costae arranged according to the formula C1≥C2>C3>C4, well developed only distally, more or less ridged, with small pointed ... : 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 page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217798 ...