Genus Cryptodendrum Klunzinger, 1877

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• Cryptodendrum Klunzinger, C.B. 1877. Die Korallthiere des rothen Meeres Erster Theil: Die Alcyonarien und Malacodermen. Berlin : Verlag der Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung 98 pp. [86].

  Type species:

   Cryptodendrum adhaesivum Klunzinger, 1877 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Thalassianthidae with broad pedal disc. Upper part of column with small verrucae. Sphincter weak, to very weak, more or less circumscribed. Margin somewhat crenulated. Wide, irregularly folded oral disc. Tentacles of two kinds, partly short, dendritic, partly spherical. At the margin there is a single row of dendritic, exocoelic tentacles, inside those a continuous, broad band of globular nematospheres. The inner greater part of the oral disc is occupied by short branched endocoelic tentacles radially arranged. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal. Two well developed siphonoglyphs. Pairs of mesenteries numerous, at least those of the three first cycles perfect. All stronger mesenteries except the directives, fertile. More mesenteries at the margin than at the base. Retractors diffuse, well-developed, band-like. Parietobasilar muscles weak, basilar muscles distinct. 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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