Arachnanthus sarsi Carlgren, 1912

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

50 Arachnanthus sarsi Carlgren, 1912

Arachnanthus sarsi Carlgren, 1912a: 27-30; Carlgren 1942: 70-71; Nair 1949: 243; Picton and Manuel 1985: 343-349; Picton 1985: 485-486; Molodtsova 2000: 15, 17; Molodtsova 2003: 251; Stampar et al. 2015c: 2164

Arachnanthus sarsii : Carlgren 1931: 9-10; Carlgren 1940: 6, 11, 13, 15

Type locality.

Röberg Indalbay, Trondheim, Norway.

Distribution.

North Sea, at 10-200 m depth.

Remarks.

This species is rather common in some areas of Great Britain and Scotland and there are two detailed descriptions; the original ( Carlgren 1912b) and a redescription ( Picton and Manuel 1985). The life cycle has been inferred from the occurrence of larvae named as Arachnactis albida ( Picton and Manuel 1985), but further study is needed to understand the relationship in detail. Not much is known about ecological aspects of this species and this should be a very interesting field of study.

Type material.

Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) - NRM 134778 (Holotype).