Genus Stylobates Dall, 1903
- Stylobates Dall, W.H. 1903. A new genus of Trochidae. Nautilus 17: 61-62 [62].
Type species:
Stylobates aeneus Dall, 1903 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Also Hawai’i and Guam in the Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean off Africa.
IMCRA
Central Eastern Province (12), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)
Diagnosis
Deep-sea Actiniidae with very wide pedal disc that covers a gastropod shell inhabited by a hermit crab. Anemone pedal disc secretes carcinoecium. Column smooth, thinwalled. Marginal sphincter muscle endodermal, circumscribed, palmate or pinnate. Tentacles hexamerously arranged; fewer than mesenteries at base. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal. Mesenteries of 5–6 orders; those of lowest orders complete and sterile, those of highest orders incomplete and fertile. Retractor muscles weak, diffuse; parietobasilar and basilar muscles distinct.
General References
Crowther, A.L., Fautin, D.G. & Wallace, C.C. 2011. Stylobates birtlesi sp. n., a new species of carcinoecium-forming sea anemone (Cnidaria, Actinaria, Actiniidae). ZooKeys 89: 33-48
Fautin, D.G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Aug-2022 | NYNANTHEAE Carlgren, 1899 | 13-Aug-2013 | MOVED | Dr Bronwen Scott |
| 05-Aug-2022 | 28-Feb-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 09-Nov-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 09-Nov-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 09-Nov-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 13-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |