Cirrhipathes de Blainville, 1830

Lima, Manuela M., Cordeiro, Ralf T. S. & Perez, Carlos D., 2019, Black Corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) from the Southwestern Atlantic, Zootaxa 4692 (1), pp. 1-67 : 8-9

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4692.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F054DC68-6A7E-4C80-9094-8ECCA4502CD6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8395984
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F878B-C914-FF91-F9EB-F891FF79F3B5
treatment provided by	Plazi (2019-11-05 07:30:49, last updated 2024-11-24 23:19:22)
scientific name	Cirrhipathes de Blainville, 1830
status

Treatment

Genus Cirrhipathes de Blainville, 1830 View in CoL View at ENA

Type-species. Gorgonia spiralis Linnaeus, 1758 (by subsequent designation: Brook, 1889).

Diagnosis. “Antipathids having an elongate unbranched corallum, around which the polyps are distributed subspirally in several irregular rows, never in a single linear series. The zooids are usually rounded in outline, and are provided with six tentacles arranged in a radiate manner. The mouth is situated on a more or less prominent conical projection of the peristome, which may show a constriction at its base. There are five pairs of mesenteries in the oral cone and three below. The coenenchyme consists of the tissue uniting neighbouring zooids; it contains a system of canals which takes a direction chiefly at right angles to the axis of the stem, and communicates with the bases of the individual zooids” ( Brook, 1889).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Dana, 1846; Brook, 1889; Van Pesch, 1914; Zou & Zhou, 1982; Echeverría, 2002).

References

Brook, G. (1889) Report on the Antipatharia collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Zoology, 32, 1.

Echeverria, C. A. (2002) Black corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia): first records and a new species from the Brazilian coast. Revista de biologia tropical, 50 (3), 1067 - 1077.

Van Pesch, A. J. (1914) The Antipatharia of the Siboga Expedition. EJ Brill, Leiden, 259 pp.

Zou, R. & Zhou, J. (1982) Studies on the antipatharians of China I. The genus Cirrhipathes with the description of a new species. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 1, 09.