Species Calliactis marmorata Studer, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calliactis marmorata Studer, T. 1879. Die Fauna von Kerguelensland. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 45(1): 104-141.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 1668, WA, Mermaid Strait [20°32’S, 116°44’E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine (host(s): Pagurus [PAGURIDAE] Hermit crab).

Diagnosis

Contraction in nearly disc-shaped body with a broad base, which is attached to a shell inhabited by a hermit crab (Pagurus). The tentacles are numerous, cylindrical, thin. Cinclides are present, in a series 6 mm above limbus, each cinclide surrounded by bulbous region. Column is brown with white spots, often colour distributed in such a way that the lower part is brown with purple longitudinal cross stripes, the upper part white, or the predominant colour is maroon with irregular patches of white. Young specimens are brown. Differs from Calliactis polypus by colour distribution.

General References

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

Studer, T. 1878. Zweite Abtheilung der Anthozoa polyactinia, welche während der Reise S. M. S. Corvette Gazelle um die Erde gesammelt wurden. Monatsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 25: 524-550

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