Plumarella circumoperculum Cairns, 2010

Cairns, Stephen D., 2018, Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) of the Okeanos Explorer expeditions (CAPSTONE) to the central Pacific, Zootaxa 4532 (1), pp. 1-43 : 39

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4E9D0908-0933-48AF-A6ED-F3B8D39E8994

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5951548

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B0147F-FFC8-FFE2-76CC-692A4233FA8D

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scientific name

Plumarella circumoperculum Cairns, 2010
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Plumarella circumoperculum Cairns, 2010 View in CoL

Fig. 1W View FIGURE 1

Plumarella circumoperculum Cairns, 2010: 422 View in CoL –425, figs. 1C, 6–7 (synonymy).

Types and Type Locality. The holotype (USNM 1072129) and paratypes are deposited at the NMNH. Type Locality: 23˚14’24”N, 163˚31’21”W (Blank Bank, Northwest Hawaiian Islands), 1373 m.

Material Examined. EX 1603-2-03, 23˚56’45”N, 166˚02’W (French Frigate Shoal, Northwest Hawaiian Is- lands), 1221 m, colony fragment, USNM 1424051 About USNM .

Remarks. This species was adequately described and figured in the original description (Cairns 2009) and thus will not be redescribed, discussed, or fully figured herein. The Okeanos site of collection is also just kilometers from previously collected specimens. The only addition to the knowledge of this species is by providing an in situ photograph of the living colony, which measures about 25 cm in width ( Fig. 1W View FIGURE 1 ).

Distribution. Northwest Hawaiian Islands between Brooks Bank and Blank Bank, 432–1373 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Primnoidae

Genus

Plumarella

Loc

Plumarella circumoperculum Cairns, 2010

Cairns, Stephen D. 2018
2018
Loc

Plumarella circumoperculum

Cairns, S. D. 2010: 422
2010
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