Astrogorgia bengalensis Ramvilas & Alderslade & Ranjeet 2023, new comb.
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Description
Astrogorgia bengalensis (Thomson & Henderson, 1906) new comb.
Muricella bengalensis Thomson & Henderson, 1906: 78, pl. 1, fig. 8, pl. 8, fig. 2 (Andamans; Bay of Bengal).
Opinion: This species occurs in the region but was originally misidentified.
Justification:
Literature analysis: This species was erected for material collected from the Bay of Bengal. The figured colony portions, particularly that in plate 1, fig. 8 can be interpreted as representing calyces and retractile polyps. As the sclerites of the calyces and coenenchyme are all spindles, we think it is safe to reassign the species to Astrogorgia. The specimen was described by Thomson & Henderson (1906) as being rose-red with a white tentacular operculum and appears to be very similar to A. milka Grasshoff, 2000, which is violet to pink with white calyces.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ramvilas & Alderslade & Ranjeet
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Family
- Plexauridae
- Genus
- Astrogorgia
- Species
- bengalensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Astrogorgia bengalensis (Thomson, 1906) sec. Ramvilas, Alderslade & Ranjeet, 2023
References
- Thomson, J. A. & Henderson, W. D. (1906) An account of the alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator in the Indian Ocean. 1. The Alcyonarians of the Deep Sea. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, 132 + xvi pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8279
- Grasshoff, M. (2000) The gorgonians of the Sinai coast and the Strait of Gubal, Red Sea (Coelenterata, Octocorallia). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 224, 1 - 125.