Dokidisis, Lapointe & Watling, 2022

Lapointe, Abby & Watling, Les, 2022, Towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Octocorallia): Part 5, new genera and species of Keratoisididae from the Tasmanian deep sea, Zootaxa 5168 (2), pp. 137-157 : 155

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.2.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EAC9B7FB-6339-4690-940F-87201679D4A5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6877145
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8032D56E-AC5F-FFFC-12C5-D718C79AFBC5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Dokidisis
status	gen. nov.

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Dokidisis new genus

Diagnosis. Colony unbranched or rarely with a branch at the node. The axis is large and thick throughout the colony. The polyp body and tentacles contain short, blunt rods, with no septal needles, and the pharynx contains very few sclerites. The coenenchyme contains elongated, flat rods.

Type species. Dokidisis australis new species, by monotypy

Remarks. See below.

Etymology. The genus name is based on the Greek noun dokidos = small beam or rod, a reference to the shape of the sclerites in the polyp body and tentacles.

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
SubClass	Octocorallia
Order	Alcyonacea
Family	Mopseidae

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