Bartholomea Duchassaing

Grajales, Alejandro & Rodríguez, Estefanía, 2014, Morphological revision of the genus Aiptasia and the family Aiptasiidae (Cnidaria, Actiniaria, Metridioidea), Zootaxa 3826 (1), pp. 55-100 : 80

Genus Bartholomea Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1864

Diagnosis (after Carlgren 1949). Aiptasiidae with wide and regularly shaped pedal disc. Column rather long, smooth (or with minute papillae), with up to five rows of cinclides in mid-column; column distinctly divisible into scapus and capitulum. Mesogleal marginal sphincter weak. Tentacles to 192, rather long, not fully retractile, with spiral or incomplete annular raised bands with nematocyst batteries; bands throughout entire tentacle or near tip only. More mesenteries distally than proximally. Perfect mesenteries 6–8 pairs, fertile. Oral stoma. Retractors diffuse, sometimes fairly restricted. Symbiotic with Symbiodinium spp. Asexual reproduction by pedal laceration. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, and microbasic b -mastigophores and p -amastigophores.

Type species. Actinia solifera Le Sueur, 1817 by subsequent designation. We amend here the type species of Bartholomea ; the designation of Actinia annulata Le Sueur, 1817 by Stephenson (1920) is invalid because this species is not among species originally in genus ( Fautin 2013). However, A. solifera was originally included in Bartholomea when the genus was erected (Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti 1864). Actinia solifera is a junior synonym of A. annulata , but the latter is not the type species of Bartholomea and should not be cited as such (Art. 67.1.2, ICZN 1999).

Included species. Bartholomea annulata ; B. peruviana Pax, 1924 .

Taxonomic remarks. We specified in the diagnosis of the genus that cinclides in mid-column might be arranged in up to five rows as we observed in Bartholomea annulata . We also added the presence of oral stoma because we detected them in B. annulata .