Genus Bunodactis Verrill, 1899

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• Bunodactis Verrill, A.E. 1899. Descriptions of imperfectly known and new Actinians, with critical notes on other species, II. American Journal of Science and Arts 4 7: 41-50 [42].

  Type species:

   Actinia verrucosa Pennant, 1777 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Diagnosis

Actiniidae with well developed pedal disc. The whole or the most part of the column with more or less distinct adhesive verrucae, which are often simple but sometimes lobed in the distal part of the body. They may or may not be arranged in obvious vertical rows. Foreign bodies often attached to the verrucae. No marginal spherules present, but there may be pseudospherules. Sphincter more or less circumscribed, sometimes circumscribed-diffuse. Tentacles rather short, simple. Longitudinal muscles of the tentacles numerous. Usually 2 pairs of directives. All stronger mesenteries fertile, sometimes the directives are sterile. Retractors commonly strong, more or less restricted. The younger mesenteries grow from the proximal end upwards and therefore the mesenteries are often more numerous in the proximal part than in the distal. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophores.

General References

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

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