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Protanthea

Protanthea simplex Carlgren 1891

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Containing group: Protantheae

Characteristics

Gonactiniidae with broad pedal disc. Column broader at the margin than at the base. Longitudinal muscle layer and nerve-stratum of the column well developed. No sphincter. Tentacles long, numerous, at the base a little constricted, at the apex not swollen. Oral disc wide, conical. Only 8 mesenteries perfect, 12 pairs of mesenteries fertile and with filaments. Weak sterile mesenteries without filaments in the upper part of the body. Retractors weak, diffuse, parietobasilar muscles weak. Cnidom: see the family.

Other Names for Protanthea simplex Carlgren 1891

References

Carlgren, O. 1949. A Survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakadamiens Handlingar, series 4, volume 1, number 1.

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Scientific Name Protanthea simplex
Location Oban (Scotland) taken in Lock Melfort, Scotland
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Copyright © 2000 Robin Harvey, S.M.B.A.
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The information provided on this page is based on Oscar Carlgren's 1949 catalog.
Copyright © 1949 Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Please note that Carlgren's text contains a number of errors, and much of the information is now out of date. An update of the catalog is currently under preparation in Daphne Fautin's laboratory, and the results of this work will be incorporated in future versions of this page.

Keyboarding of Carlgren's catalog was done as part of a project to create an electronic database of the sea anemones of the world, funded by NSF Grant DEB9521819, awarded to Daphne G. Fautin. This grant is in the program Partnerships to Enhance Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET). Susanne Hauswaldt, Katherine Pearson, and April Wakefield-Pagels contributed to the keyboarding effort.

Correspondence regarding this page should be directed to Daphne G. Fautin at

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