Stoichactiidae
Characteristics
Thenaria (Endomyaria) with well developed pedal disc. Column usually with verrucae. Sphincter diffuse to circumscribed, usually not very strong. Tentacles short, wart-like or longer, never very long. From all or some of the endocoels the tentacles arise in radial series; sometimes there is more than one row per endocoel, sometimes only one; rarely the radial arrangement is indistinct or absent. Only one tentacle communicates with each exocoel. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal. Pairs of perfect mesenteries numerous, all the stronger ones, with or without the directives, fertile. Retractors weaker or stronger, always diffuse. 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.
Title Illustrations
Stichodactyla hellianthus.
Barbados.
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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Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date.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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