Hormathia Gosse, 1859

Gusmão, Luciana C. & Rodríguez, Estefanía, 2021, Deep-Sea Anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) From The South Atlantic, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (444), pp. 1-73 : 40

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.444.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5479436

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scientific name

Hormathia Gosse, 1859
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Genus Hormathia Gosse, 1859 View in CoL

DIAGNOSIS (modified from Carlgren, 1949; modification in bold): Hormathiidae with welldeveloped pedal disc often attached to shells. Column divisible into scapus and scapulus; scapus with tubercles sometimes on longitudinal rows, more rarely in coronal tubercles on distal scapus. Scapus usually with more or less strong cuticle. Marginal sphincter musculature mesogleal, strong. Tentacles not more than 96, exceptionally few more, without mesogleal basal aboral thickenings. Same number of mesenteries proximally and distally. Longitudinal muscles of tentacles and radial muscles of oral disc ectodermal; latter sometimes mesoectodermal. Two well-developed siphonoglyphs. Six pairs of perfect and sterile mesenteries. Retractors diffuse. Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, p -mastigophores B1.

TYPE SPECIES: Hormathia margaritacea Gosse, 1859 .

VALID SPECIES: Hormathia alba (Andres, 1881) ; H. andersoni Haddon, 1888 ; H. armata Rodríguez and López-González, 2001 ; H. castanea ( McMurrich, 1904) ; H. coronata ( Gosse, 1858) ; H. digitata ( Müller, 1776) ; H. georgiana Carlgren, 1927 , H. incubans ( Gravier, 1918) ; H. indutus ( Gravier, 1918) ; H. insignis ( Stephenson, 1918a) ; H. josefi Zhiubikas, 1977 ; H. lacunifera ( Stephenson, 1918a) ; H. marioni ( Haddon, 1889) ; H. nodosa ( Fabricius, 1780) ; H. pacifica Sanamyan et al., 2015 ; H. pectinata ( Hertwig, 1882) ; H. spinosa ( Hertwig, 1882) ( Fautin, 2016) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Actiniaria

Family

Hormathiidae

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