Alcyonium

• Main Author: Ofwegen, Van
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Alcyonacea; Alcyoniidae; Alcyonium; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6237487; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6237487

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