Genus Minyas Cuvier, 1817

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Regional Maps

• Minyas Cuvier, L.G.C. 1817. Le regne animal distribue d'apres son organisation pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Paris : Déterville Vol. 4 255 pp. [24].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Column smooth or with papillae in its upper part, with spirocysts. Fosse distinct. Tentacles short, papilliform, the exocoelic tentacles in a single row, the endocoelic tentacles may show a tendency to form two rows? Usually ten pairs of perfect mesenteries and ten pairs of imperfect ones (sometimes some of the latter can reach the uppermost part of actinopharynx). Perfect and imperfect mesenteries lie close to each other in longitudinal furrows on the column and form secondary pairs with the retractors facing away from each other. Retractors strongly restricted, parietobasilar muscles broad but not folded. 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