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Fannyella Gray 1872

Description

Genus Fannyella Gray, 1872

Diagnosis (modified from Bayer 1998, modifications in bold)

Primnoinae with uniplanar and dichotomously branching, often lyrate, also bottlebrush colonies. Polyps upward, appressed to stem, straight or adaxially incurved, and arranged in whorls or in spirals. Opercular scales eight in number. Marginal scales also eight in number, forming a circumoperculum that can fold over the operculars. Marginals and body scales distinctively shaped as ascus scales, aligned in eight longitudinal rows. Adaxial scales often reduced in size and number.

Notes

Published as part of details, Publication, authors, including instructions for, information, subscription, http, www. tandfonline. com, loi & tnah 20, 2010, Designation of Thouarella abies Broch, 1965 as the type species of the subgenus Fannyella (Scyphogorgia) Cairns and Bayer, 2009, and description of a new genus for Stenella (Dasystenella) liouvillei Gravier, 1913 (Octocorallia: Primnoidae), pp. 1995-2013 in Journal of Natural History 44 (33 - 34) on page 2004, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2010.485739, http://zenodo.org/record/5212955

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Alcyonacea
Family
Primnoidae
Genus
Fannyella
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Fannyella Gray, 1872 sec. details, authors, information, http, com, loi & 20, 2010

References

  • Bayer FM. 1998. A review of the circumaustral gorgonacean genus Fannyella Gray, 1870 with description of five new species (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Primnoidae). Senckenb Biol. 77: 161 - 204.