Arachnanthus lilith Stampar & El Didi in Stampar et al. 2018

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.952.50617

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:96103618-0C3A-4DE9-BCC1-9AE0A824B9D8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C79DB8EA-73BB-58EB-BA8B-F37BB639BA58

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scientific name

Arachnanthus lilith Stampar & El Didi in Stampar et al. 2018
status

 

49 Arachnanthus lilith Stampar & El Didi in Stampar et al. 2018

Arachnanthus lilith Stampar and El Didi in Stampar et al. 2018: 1-7

Type locality.

island near Jaz’air Sila, Saudi Arabia.

Distribution.

Red Sea, shallow waters.

Remarks.

This species was recently described from shallow Saudi Arabian waters of the Red Sea. Morphological characterization was based on internal anatomy and there have been no studies on ecological or biological aspects of this species yet.

Type material.

Florida Museum of Natural History - FLMNH UF9168 (holotype).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

SubClass

Ceriantharia

Order

Spirularia

Family

Cerianthidae

Genus

Arachnanthus