Pachycerianthus maua (Carlgren, 1900)

Stampar, Sergio N., Reimer, James D., Maronna, Maximiliano M., Lopes, Celine S. S., Ceriello, Hellen, Santos, Thais B., Acuna, Fabian H. & Morandini, Andre C., 2020, Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the World: an annotated catalogue and key to species, ZooKeys 952, pp. 1-63 : 1

36 Pachycerianthus maua (Carlgren, 1900)

Cerianthus maua Carlgren, 1900: 27-29; Krempf 1905: 195; Pax 1909: 413; Pax 1910: 167; Schmidt 1972: 427, 433; Emig et al. 1972: 304-307

Cerianthus mana Fishelson 1970: 109

Pachycerianthus maua : Carlgren 1912b: 389-391; Arai 1971: 1680; Carter 1995: 5; Stampar et al. 2014b: 350, 352

Type locality.

Mkokotoni, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Distribution.

Indian Ocean (Mozambique, Madagascar, and Tanzania) and Aden Gulf (Djibouti) and Red Sea (Egypt and Saudi Arabia), shallow waters.

Remarks.

This species was described by Carlgren (1900), who subsequently moved this species to the genus Pachycerianthus and added some comments on its morphology ( Carlgren 1912b). Krempf (1905) recorded two specimens from Djibouti, but he did not study anatomical characteristics. Much later, Fishelson (1970) recorded a great number of specimens from Eilat, Israel. However, again, the author failed to mention any anatomical characters of the specimens, and the figure of the presented specimen is quite inconsistent with the description of Carlgren (1900) or with specimens analyzed from Mozambique (S. Stampar pers. obs.). Thus, the identification of the Red Sea specimens may be misleading, and these Red Sea specimens could be classified either as another species already known to the region (perhaps Cerianthus medusula ) or as an undescribed species.

Type material.

Not found in this study, but the original description provided a graphic representation.