Species Bunodeopsis australis Haddon, 1898

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bunodeopsis australis Haddon, A.C. 1898. The Actiniaria of Torres Straits. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 6(2): 393-520 [398, 435; pl 23., figs. 9, 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype Albany Passage, Cape York, Australia.

  Secondary source:

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

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

Column to 3 mm, cylindrical, translucent white, base with yellow streaks. Single row of vesicles at base of column. Tentalces, to 10mm, longer than column, entacmaeous. Tentacles, creamy buff, basal portion of oral side brown, central portion of tentacle with fine yellow spots.

General References

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

Cutress, C.E. 1979. Bunodeopsis medusoides Fowler and Actinodiscus neglectus Fowler, two Tahitian sea anemones: redescription and biological notes. Bulletin of Marine Science 29(1): 96-109

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

Stephenson, T.A. 1922. On the classification of Actiniaria. Part III. -- Definitions connected with the forms dealt with in Part II. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 66(262): 247-319

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