Genus Stichodactyla Brandt, 1835

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• Stichodactyla Brandt, J.F. 1835. Prodromus Descriptionis Animalium AB H. Mertensio in Orbis Terrarum Circumnavigatione Observatorum. Petropoli : Sumptibus Academiae 75 pp. [16].

  Type species:

   Stichodactyla mertensii Brandt, 1835 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Diagnosis

Pedal disc well developed, adherent. Flat, undulating and broad oral disc covered with many short tentacles; endocoelic tentacles radially arrayed, mostly two or more abreast, to five at margin; rows communicating with successively higher order endocoels shorter, more marginal; in most species all tentacles alike, but single exocoelic ones may be more robust. Column generally broader than tall, flared part verrucose. Fosse absent to shallow. 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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