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Chelidonisididae Saucier & France & Watling 2021, n. family
Authors/Creators
- 1. Faculty of Science, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, 55 - 220 Kulanui St, Laie, Hawaii, 96762, USA
- 2. Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
- 3. School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Description
Family Chelidonisididae n. family
Type genus: Chelidonisis Studer, 1890
Diagnosis. Modified from Bayer and Stefani (1987a). Colony branched in one plane, occasionally anastomosing, branching from distal end of internodes; internodes longitudinally ridged, the ridges armed with spines; polyps forming hemispherical or bluntly conical verrucae distributed mostly on two sides of the branches in the plane of ramification; coenenchyme thin; sclerites predominantly in the form of 6-radiates and with small tuberculate plates in the tentacles.
Included genera: Chelidonisis Studer, 1890.
Remarks. See the Remarks under the family Isididae.
Notes
Published as part of Saucier, Esprit Heestand, France, Scott C. & Watling, Les, 2021, Toward a revision of the bamboo corals: Part 3, deconstructing the Family Isididae, pp. 247-272 in Zootaxa 5047 (3) on page 267, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5540714
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.3.2 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5540714 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF81FFBCFF8EFFCED35A62150F55FE12 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/072B07D8-324A-412E-A76E-C39067AC77AE (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03B887C4FF9AFFDAD3CD62830C73FFE6 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Saucier & France & Watling
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Family
- Chelidonisididae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic status
- fam. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chelidonisididae Saucier, France & Watling, 2021
References
- Bayer, F. M. & Stefani, J. (1987 a) New and previously known taxa of isidid octocorals (Coelenterata: Gorgonacea), partly from Antarctic waters. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 100, 937 - 991.