Genus Phlyctenactis Stuckey, 1909

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• Phlyctenactis Stuckey, F.G. 1909. A Review of the New Zealand Actiniaria known to Science, together with a Description of Twelve New Species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 41: 374-398 [396].

  Type species:

   Phlyctenactis retifera Stuckey, 1909 by subsequent designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Diagnosis

Actiniidae with broad pedal disc. The whole column with large, oval, simple vesicles very close set in somewhat irregular rows. No spherules. Fosse well developed. Sphincter broad, diffuse. Tentacles rather short numerous. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc mesogloeal. 2 broad siphonoglyphs. Mesenteries numerous, hexamerously arranged. Retractors diffuse, parietobasilar muscles well developed, basilar muscles distinct. Primary and secondary mesenteries may be sterile. More mesenteries at the base than at the margin. 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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