Cerianthus taedus McMurrich, 1910

Stampar, Sergio N., Reimer, James D., Maronna, Maximiliano M., Lopes, Celine S. S., Ceriello, Hellen, Santos, Thais B., Acuna, Fabian H. & Morandini, Andre C., 2020, Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the World: an annotated catalogue and key to species, ZooKeys 952, pp. 1-63 : 1

22 Cerianthus taedus McMurrich, 1910

Cerianthus taedus McMurrich, 1910: 30-31; Carlgren 1912a: 44-47; van Soest 1979: 117; Pei 1998: 181

Type locality.

Makassar Strait, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Distribution.

Only known from deep water (at 724 m depth) at the type locality.

Remarks.

This species was described based on only one damaged specimen, which was 6 cm long, with 55 marginal and labial tentacles arranged in two and four cycles, respectively. The organization of the mesenteries was not described in detail by McMurrich (1910), who simply indicated the alternation of fertile and sterile mesenteries. There are several observations of different morphotypes that are not formally associated with any other name described from this or related areas. As there are no other species described for this region with this morphotype, it is probably a valid species, but it is not possible to certainly state that this species belongs to Cerianthus .

Type material.

Possibly lost (Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, now Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden).