Pentamera Ayres, 1852
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.9 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426251 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EE3887C3-FF98-3475-2DAB-F9A1FC4FF83B |
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Plazi |
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Genus Pentamera Ayres, 1852 View in CoL
Diagnosis. Ten tentacles, the two ventral ones are smaller. Tube feet only in the radii, elongated, slightly retractile. Radial of the calcareous ring with moderate to long forked tails, segmented. Body wall with tables of two pillars or derivatives of these, sometimes accompanied by plates. Tube feet with large endplates, and curved supporting tables varying from low to high spire. Tentacles with rods, plates, or rosettes (modified after Deichmann 1941; Lambert 1998; Prata & Christoffersen 2016).
Type species. Pentamera pulcherrima Ayres, 1852 View in CoL (by monotypy).
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