Genus Capnea Forbes, 1841

Museums

Regional Maps

• Capnea Forbes, E 1841. Contributions to British actinology. I. On Kapnea, a new helianthoid polype. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(42): 81-85 [82-83].

  Type species:

   Capnea sanguinea Forbes, 1841 by monotypy.

Distribution

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Diagnosis

Capneidae with very wide pedal disc. Column smooth, divisible into scapus and capitulum, the former provided with a more or less distinct periderm, the latter containing spirocysts which are absent or almost so from the scapus. Fosse distinct. Sphincter fairly to very strongly pinnate circumscribed, with a distinct central axis of mesogloea. Tentacles short, simple or somewhat lobed, comparatively few, arranged in cycles; two tentacles communicating with each main exocoel, two to four with each main endocoel. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc chiefly mesogloeal. One siphonoglyph. Mesenteries more numerous proximally than distally. All stronger mesenteries perfect, fertile and with strong pinnate, circumscribed retractors.

General References

Carlgren, O. 1949. A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Ventenskapsakademiens Handlingar 1: 1–121

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