Acrossota Bourne, 1914

Alderslade, Philip & S, Catherine, 2007, Pinnule­less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo­Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), Zootaxa 1400, pp. 27-44 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.200377

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6249861

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Acrossota Bourne, 1914
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Acrossota Bourne, 1914 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Colonies of upright polyps arising from stolons that may coalesce into small or extensive basal membranes. Polyp bodies, basal membranes and stolons are covered by a cuticle. Polyp tentacles snake­like, without pinnules, able to be withdrawn by a process of invagination. Sclerites absent. Zooxanthellate.

Type species. Clavularia amboinensis Burchardt, 1902 , here designated = Acrossota amboinensis n. comb.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

SubClass

Octocorallia

Order

Alcyonacea

Family

Acrossotidae

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