Actinostella flosculifera Le Sueur 1817

Autor: Gonzalez-Mu��oz, Ricardo, Sim��es, Nuno, Sanchez-Rodriguez, Judith, Rodriguez, Estefania, Segura-Puertas, Lourdes
Rok vydání: 2012
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6180907
Popis: Actinostella flosculifera (Le Sueur, 1817) (Figure 3, Table 2) Actinia flosculifera Le Sueur, 1817: 174. Metridium praetextum Couthouy in Dana, 1846: 150 ���152. Actinostella formosa Duchassaing, 1850: 10. Oulactis flosculifera Milne-Edwards, 1857: 292. Oulactis conquilega Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860, pl. VII, fig. 7. Oulactis Flosculifera [sic] Duchassaing, 1870: 20. Evactis flosculifera Andres, 1883: 244. Oulactis foliosa Andres, 1883: 297. Oulactis fasciculata McMurrich, 1889 b: 108 ���110. Asteractis n. sp.: Duerden, 1897: 455. Asteractis expansa Duerden in McMurrich, 1898: 232 ���234. Cradactis fasciculata Haddon, 1898: 436. Asteractis flosculifera Verrill, 1899 a: 45 ���46. Actinactis flosculifera Verrill, 1900: 572. Actinostella flosculifera McMurrich, 1905: 7. Actinostella conchilega McMurrich, 1905: 4 ���8. Phyllactis flosculifera Stephenson, 1922: 283. Material examined.��� Puerto Morelos (20 �� 54 ��� 26.38 ��� N, 86 �� 50 ��� 43.14 ��� W; 5 specimens); Isla Contoy (21 �� 29 ��� 0.10 ��� N, 86 �� 47 ��� 39.10 ��� W; 5 specimens); Akumal (20 �� 23 ��� 37.03 ��� N, 87 �� 18 ��� 44.51 ��� W; 1 specimen). Diagnosis.���Fully expanded tentacles and marginal ruff to 120 mm in diameter. Oral disc 15���45 mm in diameter, with white spots (Figure 3 B). Tentacles about 48, hexamerously arranged in four cycles, smooth, conical, tapering distally, moderately long, inner ones longer than outer ones, contractile, white, semi-transparent with scattered small circular white spots (Figure 3 B). Column more or less elongated, 20���65 mm in height and 15���30 mm in diameter, smooth but with small rows of verrucae distally (Figure 3 C, F). Above verrucae lies a marginal ruff (or collar) formed by 48 rows of small frond-like fused papillae, light brown or olive-green (Figure 3 A, B). Pedal disc well developed, 11���29 mm in diameter (Figure 3 D). Pedal disc and column beige, semi-transparent. Mesenteries hexamerously arranged in three cycles (24 pairs in specimens examined): first cycle (including directives) and some pairs of second cycle perfect and fertile, others imperfect and sterile; gonochoric (?), only oocytes in examined specimens (Figure 3 E); same number of mesenteries distally and proximally. Two pairs of directives each attached to a well developed siphonoglyph. Retractor muscles strong and restricted; parietobasilar muscles well developed with a free mesogleal pennon (Figure 3 E). Basilar muscles well developed. Marginal sphincter muscle not developed (Figure 3 F). Zooxanthellae present. Cnidom: basitrichs, microbasic pmastigophores and spirocysts (Figure 3 G���N; see Table 2). ������ continued on the next page ������ continued on the next page Natural history.��� Actinostella flosculifera inhabits fields of the seagrasses Thalassia testudinum and Syringodium filiforme, often between 0.5���5 m depth, in areas of the lagoon-reef zone with low wave energy. It is usually found with the column burrowed, but the pedal disc is actually adhered to buried rocks, shells or rhizomes of seagrasses. During the day, the tentacles remain contracted and the marginal ruff fully expanded, allowing zooxanthellae (particularly abundant in this area) to capture sunlight; during night the situation is the opposite, allowing tentacles to capture food (H��ussermann 2003). The marginal ruff is similar in color to dead leaves of seagrass, probably camouflaging this species. Distribution.���From Bermuda to Brazil, along the entire Caribbean Sea (see Table 1). Also reported in Canary Islands (Oca��a & den Hartog 2002) and the Gulf of Guinea (Wirtz 2003). This species is reported for the Mexican Caribbean in Punta Canc��n, Punta Nizuc, and Isla Mujeres reefs (INE 1998 a), but this is the first time recorded for Puerto Morelos, Akumal, and Isla Contoy reefs. Remarks.���Three of the 10 valid species of Actinostella have been recorded in the Caribbean Sea: A. flosculifera, A. radiata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860), and A. variabilis (Hargitt, 1911) (Fautin 2011). According to McMurrich (1905), A. radiata resembles A. conchilega (= A. flosculifera) in its general appearance but differs perhaps in the number of tubercles on the fronds and the verrucae in each longitudinal row, and in the circumscribed endodermal sphincter; however, the distinction between A. radiata and A. flosculifera remains unclear and needs further revision. The specimens of A. variabilis (= Cradactis variabilis) showen in Hargitt���s (1911) description are actually specimens of Lebrunia coralligens (Wilson, 1890) and perhaps some young individuals of L. danae. The diagnosis of Actinostella mentions a strong to very weak circumscribed marginal sphincter muscle (Carlgren 1949; H��ussermann 2003); however, like McMurrich (1905), we did not observe a distinct marginal sphincter muscle in the specimens examined. Further revision is needed to clarify the presence or absence of marginal sphincter in A. flosculifera.
Published as part of Gonzalez-Mu��oz, Ricardo, Sim��es, Nuno, Sanchez-Rodriguez, Judith, Rodriguez, Estefania & Segura-Puertas, Lourdes, 2012, First Inventory of Sea Anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) of the Mexican Caribbean, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 3556 on pages 11-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203987
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