Cerianthus stimpsonii Verrill, 1868

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

20 (?) Cerianthus stimpsonii Verrill, 1868

Cerianthus stimpsonii Verrill, 1868: 317-318; Verrill 1870: 102; Andres 1883: 351-352; van Beneden 1897: 140; Pax 1910: 167; Mello-Leitão 1919: 36; Molodtsova 2001b: 913

Type locality.

Port Lloyd, Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands), Japan.

Distribution.

Only known from shallow water (18 m depth) at the type locality.

Remarks.

Based on the description by Verrill (1868), this species probably belongs to the family Arachnactidae , particularly due to the description of a soft tube (see Stampar et al. 2015b). The few external characters presented are only consistent with those of the family Arachnactidae . Unfortunately, there are no specimens from the Ogasawara Islands deposited in museums, and further discussions on this point depends on finding some material that can be correlated with the type material or else new collections for the designation of a neotype.

Type material.

Not found in this study.