Antropora minor ( Hincks, 1880 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601062771 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3C0487C6-FFBF-9437-BAA7-C241FBDC3E18 |
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Felipe |
scientific name |
Antropora minor ( Hincks, 1880 ) |
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Antropora minor ( Hincks, 1880) View in CoL
( Figure 5A, B View Figure 5 )
‘‘? Membranipora trifolium S. Wood , var. minor ’’ Hincks 1880, p 87, Plate 11, Figure 6 View Figure 6 . Antropora minor: Tilbrook 1998, p 34 , Figure 2A–F View Figure 2 ; 2006, p 30, Figure 4B View Figure 4 ; Tilbrook et al.
2001, p 41, Figure 3A View Figure 3 .
Measurements ZL, 0.35–0.48 (0.422¡0.044). ZW, 0.23–0.35 (0.273¡0.039). OpL, 0.21–0.28
(0.240¡0.023). OpW, 0.14–0.16 (0.149¡0.009).
Description
Colony unilaminar, encrusting. Gymnocyst scarcely evident; cryptocyst ( Figure 5A, B View Figure 5 ) very wide and shallowly sloping proximally, narrowing and steep distally, with coarse, rather irregularly arranged tubercles; opesia large, irregularly oval or subtriangular. Interzooidal avicularia small, on a raised cystid; some zooids have a kenozooidal papilla at proximal end, replacing or together with an avicularium. Ovicells lacking, but the raised, smooth distal zooidal margin in fertile zooids ( Figure 5B View Figure 5 ) may represent a vestigial ovicell. Spines lacking. Autozooid-sized vicarious avicularia can occur, but are absent in our specimen.
Remarks
Only one small, dead colony fragment was found, at Kapa’a.
Distribution
Circumtropical ( Tilbrook, 1998); not previously reported from the Hawaiian Islands.
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