Radicipes Stearns, 1883

Perez, Carlos D., 2017, A revision of the genus Radicipes Stearns, 1883 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae), Zootaxa 4319 (1), pp. 1-26 : 3

Key to species of Radicipes Stearns, 1883

1. Sclerites virtually absent or rare in polyp body wall.................................................... R. spiralis

1a. Sclerites always present in polyp body wall................................................................. 2

2. Body wall sclerites predominantly long scales with irregular margins........................... R. aureus ( Fig. 14 A,B)

2a. Body wall sclerites predominantly rods, flattened rods or scale-like rods with regular margins......................... 3

3. Body wall sclerites predominantly flattened to slightly rounded rods............................................. 4 3a. Body wall sclerites predominantly rounded rods, sometimes with one flattened tip.................................. 5 4. Fully developed polyps with body wall filled by sclerites longitudinally arranged in eight regular rows (adaxials less devel-

Figures

FIGURE 14. ScleriteS of Radicipes aureus Kükenthal, 1919 (ZMB 8565, holotype). A: rodS from the body Wall; B: infrabaSal ScaleS; C: coenenchymal ScaleS; D: pinnular ScaleS; E: tentacular rodS. Scale bar: 0.2 mm.