Pachycerianthus delwynae Carter, 1995

Stampar, Sergio N., Reimer, James D., Maronna, Maximiliano M., Lopes, Celine S. S., Ceriello, Hellen, Santos, Thais B., Acuna, Fabian H. & Morandini, Andre C., 2020, Ceriantharia (Cnidaria) of the World: an annotated catalogue and key to species, ZooKeys 952, pp. 1-63 : 1

29 Pachycerianthus delwynae Carter, 1995

Pachycerianthus delwynae Carter, 1995: 2-3; Molodtsova 2007: 133; Stampar et al. 2014b: 350, 352

Type locality.

off Port Jackson, Sydney harbor, Australia.

Distribution.

Sydney harbor, Australia, at 5-15 m depth.

Remarks.

This is one of two species of this genus described from Australia by Carter (1995), the other one being P. longistriathus . They co-occur in the same bay and therefore doubts about the consistency of the two taxonomic species still exist. The morphological differences between the two species appear consistent, but intraspecific variation is quite significant and thus a more thorough evaluation of the morphological characters and the inclusion of molecular data may change this view.

Type material.

Australian Museum; AMG15399 (holotype).