Menella
| Autor: | Namin, Samimi, Ofwegen, Van |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.6220189 |
| Popis: | Menella sp. a (Figs. 13 c, 22���23) Material: RMNH Coel. 38781, one specimen, E of Kish Island, coll. K. Samimi Namin. Description. The colony is 7 cm high, consisting of one branch with a small side branch (Fig. 13 c); half the colony is devoid of coenenchyme. Calyces are dome-shaped, closely set to each other, and situated all around the branches. The polyps have a collaret and points made up of spindles which are up to 0.20 mm long; the point spindles having one end dentate (Fig. 22 a���b). Surface layer of coenenchyme with rooted leaves, up to 0.35 mm long, with mostly one big, flat, thin leaf; sometimes one or two extra smaller leaves are present (Fig. 23). Additionally a few leaf spindles are present, up to 0.55 mm long (Fig. 22 c). Inner layer of coenenchyme with spindles, up to 0.35 mm long, with rather simple tubercles; several with side branches (Fig. 22 d). Furthermore, sparsely ornamented capstans and derivatives of capstans are present, up to 0.15 mm in length (Fig. 22 e). Colour. Alive, the colony was red, and preserved it retains this colour. Polyp sclerites are colourless, all others orange. Published as part of Namin, Samimi & Ofwegen, Van, 2009, Some shallow water octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of the Persian Gulf, pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 2058 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.186743 |
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