Balanophyllia thalassae Zibrowius 1980 ...

• Main Author: Altuna, Álvaro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Dendrophylliidae; Balanophyllia; Balanophyllia thalassae; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146181; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6146181

Balanophyllia thalassae Zibrowius, 1980 (Figs. 6 A–D, tables 1−3) Balanophyllia thalassae Zibrowius, 1980: 189, pl. 96, figs. A–I, pl. 97, figs. A–L—Ramil Blanco & Fernández Pulpeiro 1990: 28.—Cairns & Chapman 2001: 34 (tab. 1).—Brito & Ocaña 2004: 442, pl. 105, figs. A–B.—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 young with its distal half missing, and a dead fragment; Stn. R1R 2, 751 m, two big dead and worn specimens. Galicia Bank: Stn. R 2, 614 m, seven solitary specimens mostly broken and lacking fragments of the corallum, a small agglomerate with broken specimens, some fragments. Description. Corallum solitary, attached, straight or cup-like, massive, stout. Height from H= 1.36 cm (GCD= 1.73 cm, LCD= 1.47 cm) to H= 6.7−7.1 cm (stn. R1R2, calices broken). Corallum narrowed near base, with PD= 0.8−1.05 cm. Basal plate well developed. Wall weakly porous, more so in young specimens, with porosity increasing ... : 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 120-122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217798 ...