Savalia Nardo, 1844

Low, Martyn E. Y., Sinniger, Frederic & Reimer, James Davis, 2016, The order Zoantharia Rafinesque, 1815 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa: Hexacorallia): supraspecific classification and nomenclature, ZooKeys 641, pp. 1-80 : 17

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scientific name	Savalia Nardo, 1844
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Savalia Nardo, 1844

Savalia Nardo, 1844: 433, 434.

Savaglia Nardo, 1877: 674-676 [unjustified emendation].

Gerardia Lacaze-Duthiers, 1864a: 87.

Type species.

Gorgonia savaglia Bertolini, 1819, by monotypy (Articles 68.3, 68.3.1, ICZN 1999: 71).

Gender.

Masculine.

Diagnosis.

No mesogleal canal system in the column. Secreting a black or dark brown horny skeleton, azooxanthellate.

Remarks.

Examined species in this genus-grouping have branchiform endodermal or cyclical transitional sphincter muscle ( Swain et al. 2015). Distinction from the other skeleton-secreting zoantharians such as Kulamanamana or potentially Antipathozoanthus can be made through habitat (shallow vs. deep-sea) and/or molecular signatures.

There has been historical and recent controversy over the correct name for this genus-group, and this is discussed in detail in Appendix 3.

References

ICZN, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999. (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp.

Swain, TD, Schellinger, JL, Strimaitis, AM, Reuter, KE, 2015. Evolution of anthozoan polyp retraction mechanisms: convergent functional morphology and evolutionary allometry of the marginal musculature in order Zoanthidea (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia). BMC Evolutionary Biology 15(123): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0406-1