Genus Phlyctenanthus Carlgren, 1950

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• Phlyctenanthus Carlgren, O. 1950. Corallimorpharia, Actiniaria and Zoantharia from New South Wales and South Queensland. Arkiv för Zoologi 1: 131-146 [135].

  Type species:

   Phlyctenanthus australis Carlgren, 1950 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Diagnosis

Pedal disc well developed. Column entirely covered with large simple vesicles very close set. No spherules. Fosse well developed. Sphincter strong, decidedly circumscribed. Tentacles rather short, up to 96. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal. Two broad siphonoglyphs and two pairs of directives. There are 48 pairs of mesenteries, all seemingly perfect and fertile apart from the directives. Retractors of the stronger mesenteries diffuse, band-like, those of the weaker more restricted. Parietobasilar and basilar muscles strong. Same number of mesenteries proximally and distally. 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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