Telestula Hickson, 1930

Periasamy, Rengaiyan, Kurian, Palayil John & Ingole, Baban, 2023, A new deep-water coral species Telestula ridgensis sp. nov (Scleralcyonacea: Sarcodictyonidae) from the seamount of theCentral Indian Ridge, Zootaxa 5254 (2), pp. 231-244 : 233

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.2.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AF9325A8-00A5-4D40-B16C-F983A585CF19
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7733354
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039D87B2-F359-FFB7-4586-FF45FC519FF4
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scientific name	Telestula Hickson, 1930
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Genus Telestula Hickson, 1930 View in CoL View at ENA

Polyp sclerites small, thin, blunt rods with tubercular ornamentation, arranged in longitudinal rows but not as collaret and points. Sclerites of calyces and stolons are stellate plates, crosses, 6-radiates, irregularly-shaped, branched forms with dense tubercular ornamentation (McFadden et al. 2022).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
SubClass	Octocorallia
Order	Alcyonacea
Family	Clavulariidae

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