Thalassianthus
- Thalassianthus aster Leuckart in Rueppel 1828
- Thalassianthus kraepelini Carlgren 1900
- Thalassianthus senckenbergianus Kwietniewski 1897
Characteristics
Thalassianthidae with well developed pedal disc and rather small to medium-sized body. Column with verrucae in its upper part. Sphincter weak, restricted to circumscribed. The endocoelic tentacles (which are provided with accessory tentacles arranged in more or less distinct longitudinal rows) occupy partly the oral disc partly the oral sides of the cyclically arranged discal lobes. The aboral side of the lobes bear bunches of grape-like nematospheres. The marginal tentacles, not more than one per exocoel, are orally-aborally flattened, and their accessory tentacles are more irregularly arranged. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc without tentacles. Mouth round. Several distinct siphonoglyphs not connected with directives. Numerous mesenteries, several perfect. No directives. No more mesenteries distally than proximally. Retractors well developed, diffuse, band-like. Parietobasilar muscles weak but forming a fold. Some of the perfect and the stronger imperfect mesenteries fertile. 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Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date.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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