Genus Actinoporus Duchassaing, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Actinoporus Duchassaing, P. 1850. Animaux Radiaires des Antilles. Paris : Plon Fréres pp. 33. [10].

  Type species:

   Actinoporus elegans Duchassaing, 1850 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Capneidae of considerable length. Pedal disc rather small. Column with longitudinal rows of verrucae in its upper part below the sphincter. Fosse deep. Sphincter strong, pinnate circumscribed. Tentacles short knobs, sometimes lobed arranged in radial rows. Two principal rowsof tentacles communicate with each exocoel and endocoel. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc absent or very weak, ectodermal. Oral disc not extensive but notched in to little lappets at the margin which correspond in number to the exocoels and endocoels. A single, deep siphonoglyphs but two pairs of directives. Mesenteries all perfect and all or mostly fertile. Retractors strongly restricted to circumscribed. Parietobasilar muscles well developed.

General References

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

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