Minyadidae
- Actinia ultramarina Leseur 1817
- Minyas coerulea Lesson 1830
- Minyas torpedo Bell 1885
- Actinia olivacea Leseur 1817
- Stichophora cyanea Brandt 1835
Introduction
Carlgren's catalog (1949) recognized one genus of Minyadidae, Minyas, containing five species. The names listed above are the original binomina of these species. Nomenclatorial inconsistencies need to be resolved in a future revision of this genus (see below).Characteristics
Minyadidae: Thenaria (Endomyaria) the base of which forms a float. It is hollowed out and has indrawn edges with only a slight opening (abnormally two), the cavity being filled by a chitinuous [sic], porous mass. Sphincter circumscribed. Tentacles simple or branched, arranged in radial series over the endocoels as from the exocoels. In very young specimens the arrangement of tentacles in rows is not conspicuous. Arrangement of mesenteries curious owing to the strong enlargement of the endocoels and strong diminution of the exocoels.Minyas: Column smooth or with papillae in its upper part, with spirocysts. Fosse distinct. Sphincter weaker or stronger circumscribed. Tentacles short, papilliform, the exocoelic tentacles in a single row, the endocoelic tentacles may show a tendency to form two rows? Usually ten pairs of perfect mesenteries and ten pairs imperfect ones (sometimes some of the latter can reach the uppermost part of actinopharynx). The endocoels are strongly enlarged, the exocoels strongly reduced so that perfect and imperfect mesenteries lie close to each other in longitudinal furrows on the column and form secondary pairs with the retractors facing away from each other. Retractors strongly restricted, parietobasilar muscles broad but not folded. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic p-mastigophors.
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Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date.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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