Flabellum chunii Marenzeller 1904 ...

• Main Author: Altuna, Álvaro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Flabellidae; Flabellum; Flabellum chunii; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146167; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6146167

Flabellum chunii Marenzeller, 1904 (Figs. 5 A–D, tables 1−3) Flabellum chunii Marenzeller, 1904: 274, pl. 18, figs. 14, 14a −14b.—Zibrowius 1980: 145, pl. 76, figs. A–N.—Monteiro Marques & Andrade 1981: 88.—Cairns & Chapman 2001: 36 (tab. 1).—Brito & Ocaña 2004: 422, pl. 98, figs. A–B. Material examined. Galicia Bank: Stn. G 4, 750 m, one specimen; Stn. V 4, 732 m, 19 specimens; Stn. V 5, 877 m, 10 specimens, two of them dead; Stn. V 6, 766 m, 12 specimens, two of them dead; Stn. V 7, 924 m, six specimens, five of them dead; Stn. R 2, 614 m, one dead specimen. Description. Corallum solitary and unattached, flabellate, big (up to H= 4.8 cm), straight, laterally compressed, sometimes with a small peduncle and a minute basal disc. Wall glossy, pearly. Costae poorly developed, obscured by abundant transverse growth marks that give specimens a corrugated appearance. Basal processes occasionally present (fig. 4A, C). Calice of largest specimen examined forming a 180º apparent arch 11.8 cm long, with a ... : 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 116-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217798 ...