Ceriantheomorphe ambonensis (Kwietniewski, 1898)

Stampar, Sergio N., Reimer, James D., Maronna, Maximiliano M., Lopes, Celine S. S., Ceriello, Hellen, Santos, Thais B., Acuna, Fabian H. & Morandini, Andre C., 2020, Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the World: an annotated catalogue and key to species, ZooKeys 952, pp. 1-63 : 1

1 Ceriantheomorphe ambonensis (Kwietniewski, 1898)

Cerianthus ambonensis Kwietniewski, 1898: 426; Pax 1910: 167; McMurrich 1910: 26-28 Carlgren 1912a: 44-47; Lopes et al. 2019: 127-148

(?) Cerianthus sulcatus McMurrich, 1910: 28-30

Ceriantheomorphe ambonensis : Carlgren 1931: 1

Type locality.

Moluccas (Maluku) Islands, Indonesia, shallow waters.

Distribution.

Only known from shallow water at the type locality.

Remarks.

The original description made by Kwietniewski (1898) is very simple and based only on external characters. McMurrich (1910) obtained two specimens from the same area and conducted a more detailed anatomical study. Carlgren (1931), based on McMurrich’s description, moved the species to the newly erected genus Ceriantheomorphe . There has been no other subsequent research performed on this species. This species is commercially exploited for the international aquarium trade (exported from Indonesia), perhaps owing to its vivid orange color (S. Stampar pers. obs.).

Type material.

Not found in this study.