Description
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fourni par Zookeys
The holotype is 3.4 cm high and wide (Fig. 5A). The primary lobes branch off once or twice, lobules finger-shaped, up to 2 mm wide and 1 cm long.
The polyps have a collaret and eight points. Points with poorly developed clubs, up to 0.25 mm long (Fig. 6A), collaret with bent spindles, up to 0.25 mm long (Fig. 6B) Tentacles with rods, about 0.05 mm long (Fig. 6C).
The surface layer of the lobules has leptoclados-type clubs, the smallest are 0.07 mm long, most are around 0.10 mm, but some reach a length of 0.15 mm (Fig. 6D); in addition longer wart clubs are present, up to 0.25 mm long (Fig. 6E). Furthermore, the surface layer of the lobules has spindles, up to 0.35 mm long, with simple tubercles (Fig. 6F).
The sclerites of the surface layer of the base of the colony resemble those of the surface layer of the lobules but they are wider (Fig. 7).
The interior of the colony has mostly unbranched spindles, a few have one or two side branches. In the lobules they are up to 2.5 mm long (Fig. 8A), with simple or complex tubercles (Fig. 8B). In the base of the colony the spindles are up to 2 mm long (Fig. 8C–D), with more complex tubercles (Fig. 8E).
- licence
- cc-by-3.0
- droit d’auteur
- Leen P. van Ofwegen, Yehuda Benayahu, Catherine S. McFadden
- citation bibliographique
- Ofwegen L, Benayahu Y, McFadden C (2013) Sinularia leptoclados (Ehrenberg, 1834) (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) re-examined ZooKeys 272: 29–59
- auteur
- Leen P. van Ofwegen
- auteur
- Yehuda Benayahu
- auteur
- Catherine S. McFadden