Alcyonium

• Main Author: Ofwegen, Van
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Alcyoniidae; Alcyonium; Antarc*; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6237486; https://zenodo.org/record/6237486

Key to the Chilean Alcyonium species 1. Colonies membranous and/or lobate........................................................................................................... 2 -. Colonies digitiform or digitate..................................................................................................................... 5 2. Interior base with sparsely ornamented rods............................................. A. sollasi Wright & Studer, 1889 -. Interior base without sparsely ornamented rods.......................................................................................... 3 3. Only capstans and spindles in coenenchyme.................................................. A. grandis Casas et al ., 1997 -. Coenenchyme also with clubs.................................................................................................................... 4 4. Capstans very tuberculate, tentacle bases with clubs............................................................ A. roseum n. sp -. Capstans sparsely tuberculate, tentacle bases without clubs........... A. antarcticum Wright & Studer, 1889 5. Interior with spindles only...................................................................... A. haddoni Wright & Studer, 1889 -. Interior with rods and spindles.................................................................................................................... 6 6. Colonies with slender lobes (<0.5 cm wide)......................................................................... A. jorgei n. sp. -. Colonies with robust lobes (1 cm wide and more)...................................................................................... 7 7. Interior of complete colony with sparsely ornamented rods, most clubs without central wart......................................................................................................................................................... A. glaciophilum n. sp. -. Only interior of base with sparsely ornamented rods, most clubs with central wart......... A. yepayek n. sp. : Published as part of Ofwegen, Van, 2007, The genus Alcyonium (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) in Chile, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 1607 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178819 : {"references": ["Wright, E. P. & Studer, T. (1889) Report on the Alcyonaria collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. - Report on the Scientific Results on the Exploring. Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger Zoology 31, i - lxxvii + 1 - 314.", "Casas, C., Ramil, F. & Ofwegen, L. P. van (1997) Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Scotia Arc, South Atlantic Ocean. I. The genus Alcyonium Linnaeus, 1758. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden, 71 (26), 299 - 311."]}