Species Capnea georgiana (Carlgren, 1927)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aurelia georgiana Carlgren, O. 1927. Actiniaria and Zoantharia. pp. 1-102 in Odhner, T. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903. Stockholm : P.A. Norstedt & Söner Vol. 2(3) pp. 1-102. [91-93].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM 4011, South Georgia, off the mouth of Cumberland Bay, 252-310 m [54°11'S, 36°18'W].
• Aureliana tricirrata Carlgren, O. & Stephenson, T.A. 1929. Actiniaria. pp. 5-34 in Briggs, E.A. (ed.). Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson, O.B.E., D.Sc., B.E., F.R.S. Scientific Reports Series C-Zoology and Botany. Sydney : Alfred James Kent, Government Printer. [28-31].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G13426, Antarctica, Commonwealth Bay [65°48’S, 137°32’E].

Generic Combinations

• Capnea georgiana (Carlgren, 1927). —
  Dunn, D.F. 1983. Some Antarctic and sub-Antarctic sea anemones (Coelenterata: Ptychodactiaria and Actiniaria). Antarctic Research Series 39: 1-67 [39-44]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Antarctica

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

Pedal disc very wide, concave. Column, pale red, cylindrical, with thick mesogloea. Sphincter band-like, very thin, very broad, pinnate with close but not high folds. Tentacles simple, two in each main exocoel and each main endocoel. Outer larger than inner. Rows of tentacles in large specimens about 66. Pennons often with a by-fold inward. More mesenteries at base. Stronger mesenteries fertile, perfect, with filaments; smaller sterile without pennons and filaments.

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