Genus Actineria de Blainville, 1830

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Regional Maps

• Actineria Blainville, H.M.D. de 1830. Zoophytes. In, Levrault, F.G. (ed.). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement a l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Paris : Le Normat Tome 60 546 pp, 68 pls (+ pp. 547-631). [288].

  Type species:

   Actineria villosa Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Thalassianthidae with wide pedal disc. Column with vertical rows of verrucae in its upper part. Margin a little notched. Sphincter weak, restricted. Oral disc irregularly folded, for the most part bare, at the margin thrown into very numerous, small lobes issuing from the endocoels. Oral sides of the lobes provided with very small dendritic tentacles, which are continued a short way on to the oral disc; aboral sides of the lobes with nematospheres. Exocoelic tentacles dendritic, somewhat swollen at the base. Two siphonoglyphs. Many mesenteries perfect, all stronger mesenteries, except perhaps the directives, fertile.

General References

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

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