Species Actineria dendrophora Haddon & Shackleton, 1893

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Regional Maps

• Actineria dendrophora Haddon, A.C. & Shackleton, A.M. 1893. Description of some new species of Actiniaria from Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 8(1): 116–131 [117, 123].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMLU, Torres Strait, Murray Islands, Mer Island, QLD, 1m.

  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 Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

Column, to 70 mm, pinkish. Verrucae in vertical lines corresponding to exocoels on upper portion of column. Oral disc, greatly expanded, to 125 mm, pinkish-brown with greenish tinge, irregularly folded edge with 300-400 lobes, distal two-thirds of aboral aspect of lobes with nematospheres, oral side with branched tentacles. Tentacles, numerous, tree-like, these tentacles extend in radial lines onto oral disc that do not reach mouth. Nematospheres pink with cream tip. Sphincter muscle with large number of long, fine, slightly-branched plaits, which arise from a thick quadrate protuberace of the mesoglea.

General References

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

Haddon, A.C. 1898. The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 6(2): 393-520

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