Onkoisis solitaria ( Grant, 1976 ) Lapointe & Watling, 2022

Lapointe, Abby & Watling, Les, 2022, Towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Octocorallia): Part 5, new genera and species of Keratoisididae from the Tasmanian deep sea, Zootaxa 5168 (2), pp. 137-157 : 148

Onkoisis solitaria ( Grant, 1976) n. comb.

Lepidisis solitaria Grant, 1976

Figure 11D, E

Remarks. Grant (1976) attributed this species to the genus Lepidisis on the basis of the polyp body being covered with scales, a feature that he accepted as defining the genus. Watling & France (2021), however, showed that the original diagnosis of the genus Lepidisis as having the polyp body covered in scales was in error and that most species assigned to Lepidisis needed to be reassigned to other genera. While the polyp morphology of L. solitaria has not been re-examined in detail, genetic data shows the type specimen to be nested within the clade H1, sister to O. magnifica ( Watling et al. 2022) . The covering of the proximal half or so of the polyp body in a layer of scales can be seen in Figs. 11D, E .

Figures

FIGURE 11. Onkoisis magnifica, specimen K3830, A, view of preserved polyps, B, piece of external tunic with embedded sclerites, C, light microscope image of tunic and calcareous nodules. Onkoisis solitaria, D, E, individual polyps, with surface and transmitted illumination showing scale sclerites on lower portion of polyp body.