Genus Dofleinia Wassilieff, 1908

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• Dofleinia Wassilieff, A. 1908. Japanische Actinien. Abhandlungen des Mathematischen-Physikalischen Institutes der Kaiserlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Suppl. 1(2): 1-49 [13].

  Type species:

   Dofleinia armata Wasilieff, 1908 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Actiniidae with broad base. Column smooth. Sphincter diffuse weak. Tentacles hexamerously arranged, plump, not numerous, very large, the inner at least twice as large as the outer ones. The tentacles, the longitudinal muscles of which are ectodermal, are provided with papillae, plainly visible to the naked eye, which represent strong batteries of very large basitrichs. Weaker papillae are present also on the oral disc. 2 broad siphonoglyphs, aborally very prolonged. Mesenteries hexamerously arranged, probably all fertile apart from the directives. Retractors diffuse. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophores.

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