Genus Actinodendron de Blainville, 1830

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Regional Maps

• Actinodendron 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). [287].

  Type species:

   Actinia arborea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 by subsequent designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Actinodendronidae with the oral disc thrown into long arms, 10-48 in number. Sphincter absent. Tentacles arranged more or less spirally all round the arms, and themselves branched. The tips of the tentacles are provided with long basitrichs forming nematocyst batteries. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal. 2 broad siphonoglyphs, 2 pairs of directives. Mesenteries few, all or almost all perfect. Retractors very strong, diffuse. All mesenteries apart from the directives fertile. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs.

General References

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

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