Paracalyptrophora echinata Cairns, 2009

Cairns, Stephen D., 2018, Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) of the Okeanos Explorer expeditions (CAPSTONE) to the central Pacific, Zootaxa 4532 (1), pp. 1-43 : 37

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5951544

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scientific name

Paracalyptrophora echinata Cairns, 2009
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Paracalyptrophora echinata Cairns, 2009 View in CoL

Figs. 1U View FIGURE 1 , 17 View FIGURE 17 F–J

Paracalyptrophora echinata Cairns, 2009: 414 View in CoL –416, figs. 1C, 2–3.

Types and Type Locality. The holotype (USNM 1115283) and paratypes are deposited at the NMNH. Type Locality: 24˚16.369’N, 166˚2.132’W (Brooks Bank, Northwest Hawaiian Islands), 708 m.

Material Examined. EX 1703-10-1, 0.835˚N, 176.63˚W (near Howland Island), 545 m, 1 colony and SEM stubs 2515-2518, USNM 1453739 About USNM .

Remarks and Comparisons. This species was adequately described and figured by Cairns (2009) and thus will not be redescribed or fully figured herein. Paracalyptrophora echinata is similar to P. hawaiiensis , as discussed in the previous account of that species, but differs primarily in lacking adaxial buccal scales. That region is instead covered by an adaxial process of the large abaxial buccal scales. Furthermore, P. echinata differs in having a uniplanar colony ( Fig. 1U View FIGURE 1 ) (not bushy), shorter distal branches, and taller basal spines ( Figs. 17 View FIGURE 17 F–H).

This is the first record subsequent to its original description, and extends its known distribution from Hawaii to Howland Island, and its depth range from a minimum of 708 to 545 m.

Distribution. Northwest Hawaiian Islands from Brooks Bank to Nihoa (Cairns 2009), Howland Island, 545– 1475 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Primnoidae

Genus

Paracalyptrophora

Loc

Paracalyptrophora echinata Cairns, 2009

Cairns, Stephen D. 2018
2018
Loc

Paracalyptrophora echinata

Cairns 2009: 414
2009
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