Genus Peachia Gosse, 1855

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• Peachia Gosse, P.H. 1855. Description of Peachia hastata, a new genus and species of the class Zoophyta; with observations on the family Actiniadae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 267-276 [270-271].

  Type species:

   Peachia hastata Gosse, 1855 by subsequent designation.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Diagnosis

Elongate Haloclavidae with a well-developed, rounded aboral body-end perforated by very numerous apertures ("cinclides"). Column indistinctly divisible into regions without tenaculi but for minute adherent areas. No sphincter. Tentacles normally 12, without acrospheres, the inner endocoel-tentacles shorter than the outer exocoel-tentacles. A single very deep siphonoglyph, the oral end of which is drawn out in a more or less lobate conchula, rarely forming a distinct tube separated from the cavity of the actinopharynx by an ectodermal fusion. Pairs of mesenteries 10 (6+4 lateral and ventrolateral pairs of second cycle). Only the mesenteries of the first cycle perfect, fertile, with filaments and strong diffuse retractors. Mesenteries of the second cycle only with retractors close to the column. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophores. The larvae live parasitically on medusae.

General References

Fautin, D.G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm

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