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Hormathia Gosse 1859

Description

Genus Hormathia Gosse, 1859

DIAGNOSIS (modified from Carlgren, 1949; modification in bold): Hormathiidae with welldeveloped pedal disc often attached to shells. Column divisible into scapus and scapulus; scapus with tubercles sometimes on longitudinal rows, more rarely in coronal tubercles on distal scapus. Scapus usually with more or less strong cuticle. Marginal sphincter musculature mesogleal, strong. Tentacles not more than 96, exceptionally few more, without mesogleal basal aboral thickenings. Same number of mesenteries proximally and distally. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal; latter sometimes mesoectodermal. Two well-developed siphonoglyphs. Six pairs of perfect and sterile mesenteries. Retractors diffuse. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, p -mastigophores B1 .

TYPE SPECIES: Hormathia margaritacea Gosse, 1859.

VALID SPECIES: Hormathia alba (Andres, 1881); H. andersoni Haddon, 1888; H. armata Rodríguez and López-González, 2001; H. castanea (McMurrich, 1904); H. coronata (Gosse, 1858); H. digitata (Müller, 1776); H. georgiana Carlgren, 1927, H. incubans (Gravier, 1918); H. indutus (Gravier, 1918); H. insignis (Stephenson, 1918a); H. josefi Zhiubikas, 1977; H. lacunifera (Stephenson, 1918a); H. marioni (Haddon, 1889); H. nodosa (Fabricius, 1780); H. pacifica Sanamyan et al., 2015; H. pectinata (Hertwig, 1882); H. spinosa (Hertwig, 1882) (Fautin, 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Gusmão, Luciana C. & Rodríguez, Estefanía, 2021, Deep-Sea Anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) From The South Atlantic, pp. 1-73 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (444) on page 40, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.444.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5414262

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hormathiidae
Genus
Hormathia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Actiniaria
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Gosse
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Hormathia Gosse, 1859 sec. Gusmão & Rodríguez, 2021

References

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  • Carlgren, O. 1949. A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 1: 1 - 121.
  • Haddon, A. C. 1888. On two species of Actiniae from the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F. R. S., Superintendent of the Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology) 21: 247 - 255.
  • Rodriguez, E., and P. J. Lopez-Gonzalez. 2001. A new species of Hormathia (Actiniaria, Hormathidae) from the eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Helgoland Marine Research 55: 116 - 123.
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