Echinomuricea
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186743 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6220174 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A36F53-CA72-5A7D-F0EC-FC04FB816F5F |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Echinomuricea |
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Echinomuricea View in CoL sp. a
( Figs. 13a View FIGURE 13. a , 14–15b View FIGURE 14 View FIGURE 15. a – b )
Material: RMNH Coel. 38772, three colonies, Farur Island, coll. S.A. Mohtarami, 2006.
Description. The depicted colony ( Fig. 13a View FIGURE 13. a ) is 16 cm high and 12 cm wide, branching is bushy; branches are slender, 1–2 mm wide, and anastomoses are not present. The calyces are low and occur all around the branches.
Many polyps lack sclerites; it seems most of these have simply fallen off. When present the collaret spindles are up to 0.30 mm long and the point sclerites up to 0.20 mm long. The tentacles have small rods, up to 0.10 mm long.
The calyces have thornscales, up to 0.45 mm long, with smooth or slightly dentate spine ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 a–b).
The surface layer of the coenenchyme has spindles, many of them with side branches ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 c), and irregular branched bodies ( Fig. 15a View FIGURE 15. a – b ); the largest up to 0.60 mm long. A few oddly shaped sclerites are also present, some looking like truncated thornscales, others like small crosses ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 d).
The interior has a few small radiates, up to 0.07 mm long ( Fig. 15b View FIGURE 15. a – b ).
Colour. Alive, the colony was red with yellow polyps, preserved it is red. Most sclerites are reddish, the interior radiates pinkish to colourless.
Variability. The two other colonies have a similar colony shape but are smaller.
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National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis |
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