Cerianthus lloydii (Ceriantharia: Anthozoa: Cnidaria): New Status and New Perspectives

Subclass Ceriantharia is a well-defined and probably ancient group of marine benthic organisms renowned for their bilateral symmetry, which is reflected in the arrangement of tentacles and mesenteries. Four species of Ceriantharia have been reported in the Arctic, including Cerianthus lloydii Gosse,...

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Published in:Biology
Main Authors: Tina N. Molodtsova, Viktoria N. Moskalenko, Elizabeth V. Lipukhin, Tatiana I. Antokhina, Marina S. Ananeva, Ulyana V. Simakova
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023
Subjects:
ceriantharia
Cerianthus
Synarachnactis
geographic distribution
Arctic
North Atlantic
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Kara-Laptev
Labrador Sea
laptev
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12091167
https://doaj.org/article/c2f1890b36bf4d6fbf84affab8be49db
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Summary:Subclass Ceriantharia is a well-defined and probably ancient group of marine benthic organisms renowned for their bilateral symmetry, which is reflected in the arrangement of tentacles and mesenteries. Four species of Ceriantharia have been reported in the Arctic, including Cerianthus lloydii Gosse, 1859, also known from the Northern Atlantic and Northern Pacific. The integrity of this species was questioned in the literature, so we performed a molecular study of C. lloydii from several geographically distant locations using 18S and COI genes. The phylogenetic reconstructions show that specimens of C. lloydii form a single group with high support (>0.98), subdivided into distinctive clades: (1) specimens from Northern Europe, the Black and Barents seas, and (2) specimens from the White, Kara, Laptev, and Bering seas and also the Canadian Arctic and the Labrador Sea available via the BOLD database. There are several BOLD COI sequences of Pachycerianthus borealis (Verrill, 1873), which form a third clade of the C. lloydii group, sister to the European and Arctic clades. Based on low similarity (COI 86–87%) between C. lloydii and the type species of the genus Cerianthus Delle Chiaje, 1841— C. membranaceus (Gmelin, 1791), we propose a new status for the genus Synarachnactis Carlgren, 1924, and a new family Synarachnactidae to accommodate C. lloydii .

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