Alcyonium grandis Casas et al. 1997 ...

• Main Author: Ofwegen, Van
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Alcyoniidae; Alcyonium; Alcyonium grandis; Drake Passage; Olivares
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6237494; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6237494

Alcyonium grandis Casas et al., 1997 (Figs. 1 b–c, 5, 11) Alcyonium grandis Casas et al., 1997: 304, figs. 5–7. Material: RMNH Coel. 34936, fragment of colony, Chile, Islas Diego Ramírez/Drake Passage (approx. 56°30' S; 68°45' W), depth 1800 m, coll. Claudio Vera, 2001; ZSM 20061187, fragment of colony, South Georgia, depth 1200 m, coll. Eugenio Olivares, September 2003. Description of RMNH Coel. 34936. The colony is membranous, about 1.5 cm long and 1cm wide (Fig. 1 c). Polyps are evenly distributed over the colony. Calyces are dome shaped and all polyps are partly retracted with tentacles withdrawn. Anthocodiae have a collaret of a few irregularly arranged rows of spindles; the points have many spindles. In order to preserve as much as possible of the fragment no microscope slides were made for drawing the anthocodial sclerite arrangement. The collaret spindles are up to 0.55 mm long, with spines and prominent simple tubercles (Fig. 5 a–b). Points have spindles similar to those of the collaret, with clubs ... : Published as part of Ofwegen, Van, 2007, The genus Alcyonium (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) in Chile, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 1607 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178819 ...