Species Charisella elongata Carlgren, 1950

Museums

Regional Maps

• Charisella elongata Carlgren, O. 1950. Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(7): 427-457 [431-433].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1954.6.28.27, QLD, Great Barrier Reef, Low Isles.

  Secondary source:

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

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

Small aboral end. Column cylindrical (up to 25mm length and 7mm wide), smooth, without a cuticule, provided with a ring of perforated pseudospherules. Very weak diffuse sphincter. Tentacles short, about 48. Two distinct siphonoglyphs. 48 pairs of mesenteries, two pairs of directives. Mesenteries of the first and second cycles perfect and provided with retractors and filaments. Retractors of the mesenteries diffuse, somewhat restricted. Outer parts of the perfect mesenteries thin throughout, their muscles very weak. Near the base, the inner parts of the mesenteries are provided with longitudinal muscles on both sides. Microcnemes weak, thin. Basical muscles distinct but rather weak. Number of mesenteries the same proximally and distally.

General References

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

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