Paraminabea Williams & Alderslade, 1999

Bryce, Monika, Poliseno, Angelo, Alderslade, Philip & Vargas, Sergio, 2015, Digitate and capitate soft corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Western Australia with reports on new species and new Australian geographical records, Zootaxa 3963 (2), pp. 160-200 : 183

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.2

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:86A305B7-2B9C-403E-8FC0-3420EFB13F52

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680265

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B687F9-A448-FFF1-17DB-53924DA0F88C

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Plazi

scientific name

Paraminabea Williams & Alderslade, 1999
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Genus Paraminabea Williams & Alderslade, 1999 View in CoL

Type species. Bellonella indica Thomson & Henderson, 1905 by subsequent designation ( Williams & Alderslade 1999).

Diagnosis. Colonies usually small, unbranched, with symmetrical, cylindrical polyparium. Growth forms such as dome-shaped, digitiform, hemispherical, or digitate-lobate can occur. Dimorphic polyps are evenly distributed over the polyparium and are devoid of sclerites. Autozoids are large and completely retractile. Siphonozooids scarce, small to minute, distributed between the autozooids. The polyp-free basal portion is variable in length.

Mostly in deep water or restricted to caves and overhangs in shallow waters. Sclerites of polyparium mostly barrels, double heads and 6- or 8-radiates. Also, radiates, tuberculate spheroids, 7-radiates or double stars and spindle-like forms derived from radiates may occur.

( Williams & Alderslade 1999).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Alcyoniidae

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