Genus Heteranthus Klunzinger, 1877

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heteranthus Klunzinger, C.B. 1877. Die Korallthiere des rothen Meeres Erster Theil: Die Alcyonarien und Malacodermen. Berlin : Verlag der Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung 98 pp. [84].

  Type species:

   Heteranthus verruculatus Klunzinger, 1877 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Diagnosis

Column, apart from its lowermost part, provided with large verrucae, which at the margin are small and more numerous and overhang the fosse. Well developed pedal disc. Endodermal marginal sphincter weak circumscribed, forming only few folds. Tentacles divisible into marginal and discal tentacles. Marginal tentacles conical, simple, arranged in cycles, discal tentacles much shorter and papilliform in radial rows. Two well developed siphonoglyphs. Fairly numerous perfect pairs of mesenteries. Two pairs of directives. Retractors of mesenteries diffuse, well developed. Parietobasilar muscles weak to fairly strong. Distribution of gametogenic tissue unknown. 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

History of changes