Balanophyllia cellulosa Duncan 1873 ...

• Main Author: Altuna, Álvaro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Dendrophylliidae; Balanophyllia; Balanophyllia cellulosa; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146179; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6146179

Balanophyllia cellulosa Duncan, 1873 (Figs. 6 H–I, tables 1−3) Balanophyllia cellulosa Duncan, 1873: 333, pl. 49, figs. 11–12.—Zibrowius 1980: 187, pl. 95, figs. A–L.—Monteiro Marques & Andrade 1981: 88.—Zibrowius 1985: 319, tab. 2.—Cairns & Chapman 2001: 34 (tab. 1).—Reveillaud et al. 2008: 322 (tab. 1), 325 (fig. 4).—Altuna 2010: 21. Material examined. Le Danois Bank, 2008: Stn. D 6V, 555 m, a broken specimen of doubtful identification; Stn. S 7V, 488 m, 62 specimens, one of them dead and fragmentary; Station unknown, four specimens and some fragments. Description. Corallum solitary, unattached, trochoid, more or less curved, rarely straight, fragile. Height from H= 2.5 cm (GCD= 2.3 cm, LCD= 1.9 cm) to H= 3.9 cm (GCD= 2.1 cm, LCD= 1.8 cm), with GCD: LCD= 1.06− 1.21 (in ten specimens chosen randomly, stn. S 7V). Corallum porous distally, comonly with well developed epitheca proximally, resulting in light coralla but with stout appearance. Base narrow, pointed, with corallum tapering quickly from ... : 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 120, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217798 ...