Litophellia
Litophellia octoradiata
Characteristics
Isophelliidae with small but distinct base. Column elongate smooth, without tenaculi or cuticle. Cinclides present. Margin tentaculate. Sphincter rather strong, mesogloeal. Tentacles and mesenteries octamerously arranged. A single siphonoglyph and one pair of directives. Mesenteries as many at the base as at the margin, distinctly divisible into macro- and microcnemes. Eight pairs of macrocnemes. Two cycles of weak microcnemes. Retractors of macrocnemes strongly restricted, reniform. Parietobasilar muscles weak. Basilar muscles and acontia present. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophors, microbasic amastigophors.References
Carlgren, O. 1949. A Survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakadamiens Handlingar, series 4, volume 1, number 1.
About This Page
The information provided on this page is based on Oscar Carlgren's 1949 catalog.Copyright © 1949 Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date. An update of the catalog is currently under preparation in Daphne Fautin's laboratory, and the results of this work will be incorporated in future versions of this page.
Keyboarding of Carlgren's catalog was done as part of a project to create an electronic database of the sea anemones of the world, funded by NSF Grant DEB9521819, awarded to Daphne G. Fautin. This grant is in the program Partnerships to Enhance Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET). Susanne Hauswaldt, Katherine Pearson, and April Wakefield-Pagels contributed to the keyboarding effort.
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