Phytocoetes
Phytocoetes gangeticus
Characteristics
Haliactiidae with elongate body not divisible into regions. Proximal end physa-like. Column smooth, with rows of cinclides in its upper part. Sphincter absent. Tentacles long, the inner longer than the outer ones. Oral disc not divided into lobes. Mesenteries divisible into macro-and microcnemes, more numerous distally than proximally. 6 pairs of macrocnemes, microcnemes in variable number. Retractors of the macrocnemes restricted to circumscribed. Parietal muscles weak. Acontia few, only on the older macrocnemes, with basitrichs and probably microbasic amastigophors (penicilli).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Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date.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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