Narella macrocalyx Cairns & Bayer, 2007

Cairns, Stephen D., 2018, Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) of the Okeanos Explorer expeditions (CAPSTONE) to the central Pacific, Zootaxa 4532 (1), pp. 1-43 : 23

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4E9D0908-0933-48AF-A6ED-F3B8D39E8994

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5951527

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0147F-FFF8-FFD2-76CC-698947C1F89E

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Narella macrocalyx Cairns & Bayer, 2007
status

 

Narella macrocalyx Cairns & Bayer, 2007 View in CoL

Fig. 1R View FIGURE 1

Narella macrocalyx Cairns & Bayer, 2007: 99 View in CoL –103, figs. 1C, 10A–D, 11A–H.

Types and Type Locality. The holotype (USNM 1072133) and paratypes are deposited at the NMNH. Type Locality: seamount east of Necker Island (Hawaiian Islands), 1443 m.

Material Examined. EX 1504-L 2-14-2, 26.2010˚N, 173˚3255’W ( North Pioneer Ridge , Hawaiian Islands), 1587 m , 15 August 2015, USNM 1294081 About USNM ; EX 1606-3, 20.443˚N, 163.714˚ E (west of Wake Island), 1983 m , image only; EX 1606-7, 17.309˚N, 165.961˚E, (southwest of Wake Island), 2033 m , image only; EX 1606-12, 18.320˚N, 165.98˚E (southwest of Wake Island), 1258 m , image only.

Remarks. This species was adequately described and figured by Cairns & Bayer (2007) and thus will not be redescribed herein. The additional collected specimen and in situ images of three additional colonies allow the observation that it is a very sparsely branched colony, most of its three to seven long distal branches originating from the main stem within 5 cm of the base of the colony ( Fig. 1R View FIGURE 1 ). Collection of a partial colony could easily be confused for an unbranched species. It would appear that most of the basal scales have a dorsolateral ridge, and that the whorl diameter may be as small as 7 mm.

The specimens reported herein extend the geographic to off Wake Island, and the known bathymetric range from 1807 to 1983 m.

Comparisons. Among the 23 species of Narella having a dorsolateral ridge on their basal scales, only one other is commensal with a polychaete worm, N. gilchristi ( Thomson, 1911) . Narella macrocalyx diffs from that species, as well as all the other species in that group by having the largest polyps and whorl diameter of any species and by having two or three pairs of adaxial buccal scales.

Distribution. Hawaiian Islands from Pioneer Bank to Molokai ( Cairns & Bayer 2007), off Wake Island, 1206– 2033 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Primnoidae

Genus

Narella

Loc

Narella macrocalyx Cairns & Bayer, 2007

Cairns, Stephen D. 2018
2018
Loc

Narella macrocalyx

Cairns, S. D. & Bayer, F. M. 2007: 99
2007
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF