Aethisis Xu, Lu & Xu 2024, gen. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Qingdao Key Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China.
- 2. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China.
- 3. School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.
- 4. Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Qingdao Key Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China. & Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Center, Qingdao 266237, China. & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Description
Aethisis Xu, Lu & Xu, gen. nov.
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Diagnosis. Colony with branches dichotomously branched in different planes. Branches originating from the nodes. Polyps turreted and cylindrical with an expanded tentacular part and a bare, sclerite-free area at the base of each tentacle, sparsely and irregularly arranged on all sides of the axis. Sclerites often with toothed lateral edges, including scales with a slightly medial constriction in pinnules, flat rods in tentacle rachis, flat rods, sparse spindles and thick scales with an obvious medial constriction in polyp body wall and coenenchyme. Rods in pharynx with rough irregular projections on the all sides.
Type species. Aethisis turriformis Xu, Lu & Xu, sp. nov.
Etymology. The name is a combination of Greek prefix “aeth-” (unusual and strange) and + isis, the stem group name.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Xu, Lu & Xu
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Family
- Keratoisididae
- Genus
- Aethisis
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aethisis Xu, Lu & Xu, 2024