Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881

Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2005, A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 1018 (1), pp. 15-46 : 22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1018.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:02411A3D-C81F-4E3D-A24F-8D07FF9A64C4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5049426

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D5E87EC-A311-0A0D-9376-014DC5B70F8C

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Felipe

scientific name

Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881
status

 

Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881 View in CoL

Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881: 177–178 View in CoL , pl. 8, figs. 1–6. — Cairns, 1982: 13, pl. 3, figs. 1–3, map 1. — Piñón, 1999: 20, 80 (listed).

Remarks. —This species is known from only one record off Chile: 47°01'S, 75°44'W (off Península Tres Montes) at 1146 m, although additional specimens are known from off southern South America from Rio Grande, Brazil to Cabo Tres Puntas, Argentina at depths of 500–1250 m ( Cairns 1982). It is characterized as having a colony with large (up to 1 cm in CD) sympodially arranged corallites, a fascicular columella, four cycles of septa and one crown of 12 P3, and occasionally intratentacular budding.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Oculinidae

Genus

Bathelia

Loc

Bathelia candida Moseley, 1881

Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter 2005
2005
Loc

Bathelia candida

Pinon, G. C. 1999: 20
Cairns, S. D. 1982: 13
Moseley, H. N. 1881: 178
1881
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