Species Isanemonia australis Carlgren, 1950

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isanemonia australis Carlgren, O. 1950. Actinaria and Zoantharia from South Australia. Arkiv för Zoologi 20: 121-135 [127-128].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMLU 200, Port Willunga, SA, 0-3 m.

  Secondary source:

   Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds) 1982. Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Diagnosis

Broad pedal disc, up to 50 mm. Column smooth, olive or brownish red colour. Perforated pseudospherules at margin. Usually 2 siphonoglyphs, sometimes 1. Approximately 100 tentacles, grey, green, or reddish colour, inner tentacles approximately 1 cm. Fosse broad, marginal sphincter muscle elongated and diffuse. Slightly more mesenteries at base than tentacles. Retractors bandlike, parietobasilar muscles very strong forming fold on mesenteries.

General References

Carlgren, O. 1954. Actiniaria and Zoantharia from south and west Australia with comments upon some Actiniaria from New Zealand. Arkiv för Zoologi 6: 571–595

Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds) 1982. Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp.

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