Fannyella Gray 1872
Description
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.
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Identifiers
Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2010.485739 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5212955 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/233C8871FFDCFFAFB330FFD91236FA1C (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/DF05F009FFD7FFA4B2FFFE2B1164F906 (URL)
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.