Species Alicia rhadina Haddon & Shackleton, 1893

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alicia rhadina 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, 127-128].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QLD, Cape York [10°43'S, 142°36'E].

  Secondary source:

   Fautin, D. 2002. 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

Flat pedal disc, column cylindrical when expanded and conical when retracted. Column, to 30mm, with delicate capitulum and scapus. Column translucent white, almost transparent; six vertical rows of brown, and six of white vesicles, all have greenish grey apex surrounded by a narrow ring of cream colour. Column with vesicles, stalked and compound just below capitulum, flat and in rows lower on column. Oral disc may be flat or conical. Tentacles 48 in two cycles, inner longer than outer.

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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