Parasmittina parsevalii (Audouin, 1826)
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/122918 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B8789-0876-FFE9-FC95-FF1BFB2824E3 |
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Felipe |
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Parasmittina parsevalii (Audouin, 1826) |
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11. Parasmittina parsevalii (Audouin, 1826) View in CoL (Plate 2e)
Locality: Malvan port, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra,16° 04’
09.8 N
Substratum: Dead coral rubble
Description: Colony is encrusting, multilaminar or occasionally grows into free unilaminar fronds. Autozooids rectangular to irregularly polygonal. Orifice is circular or slightly triangular proximally. Primary orifice could be seen through the peristome, slightly wider than long, distal edge more or less straight, with a few indistinct denticulations. Avicularia are numerous and polymorphic. Two types of small avicularia, one acute and the other rounded, distributed in almost every zooecium. Gigantic adventitious avicularia is present in some autozooids, extending from lateral to orificc proximally, for whole length of autozooid, rostrum spatula shaped, deeply cupped, with a coarsely denticulate distal rim. Ovicell spherical, slightly immersed, ectooecium present at the rim. Peristome may invade the proximal rim extending onto its frontal surface.
Records from Indian waters: Cochin, East and West Coasts of India
Distribution: Egypt, Burma, Sumbawa, Strait of Makassar, Paternoster Island, Sulu Archipelago, Saleyer, South of Celebes, south-east Celebes, West Flares, Banda Sea, Aru Island; Great Barrier Reef.
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