Dokidisis, Lapointe & Watling, 2022

Lapointe, Abby & Watling, Les, 2022, Towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Octocorallia): Part 5, new genera and species of Keratoisididae from the Tasmanian deep sea, Zootaxa 5168 (2), pp. 137-157 : 155

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EAC9B7FB-6339-4690-940F-87201679D4A5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6877145

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8032D56E-AC5F-FFFC-12C5-D718C79AFBC5

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scientific name

Dokidisis
status

gen. nov.

Dokidisis new genus

Diagnosis. Colony unbranched or rarely with a branch at the node. The axis is large and thick throughout the colony. The polyp body and tentacles contain short, blunt rods, with no septal needles, and the pharynx contains very few sclerites. The coenenchyme contains elongated, flat rods.

Type species. Dokidisis australis new species, by monotypy

Remarks. See below.

Etymology. The genus name is based on the Greek noun dokidos = small beam or rod, a reference to the shape of the sclerites in the polyp body and tentacles.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Mopseidae

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