Menella

Namin, Samimi & Ofwegen, Van, 2009, Some shallow water octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of the Persian Gulf, Zootaxa 2058, pp. 1-52 : 32

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186743

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6220190

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A36F53-CA7E-5A71-F0EC-FD08FED16C76

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Plazi

scientific name

Menella
status

 

Menella View in CoL sp. a

( Figs. 13 View FIGURE 13. a c, 22–23)

Material: RMNH Coel. 38781, one specimen, E of Kish Island, coll. K. Samimi Namin.

Description. The colony is 7 cm high, consisting of one branch with a small side branch ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13. a c); half the colony is devoid of coenenchyme. Calyces are dome-shaped, closely set to each other, and situated all around the branches.

The polyps have a collaret and points made up of spindles which are up to 0.20 mm long; the point spindles having one end dentate ( Fig. 22 View FIGURE 22 a–b).

Surface layer of coenenchyme with rooted leaves, up to 0.35 mm long, with mostly one big, flat, thin leaf; sometimes one or two extra smaller leaves are present ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 ). Additionally a few leaf spindles are present, up to 0.55 mm long ( Fig. 22 View FIGURE 22 c).

Inner layer of coenenchyme with spindles, up to 0.35 mm long, with rather simple tubercles; several with side branches ( Fig. 22 View FIGURE 22 d). Furthermore, sparsely ornamented capstans and derivatives of capstans are present, up to 0.15 mm in length ( Fig. 22 View FIGURE 22 e).

Colour. Alive, the colony was red, and preserved it retains this colour. Polyp sclerites are colourless, all others orange.

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Plexauridae

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