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UMUTZ- Cnid-A-30

Scientific Name Dendronephthya (Roxasia) cf. candida (Pütter)

Type Status

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Alcyonacea


Suborder Alcyoniina


Family Nephtheidae


Genus Dendronephthya


Subgenus (Roxasia)


Species cf. candida


Subspecies


Auther (Pütter)


Locality North of Okinawa Island, 28°10’N, 126°2’E to 28°20’N, 126°11’E, 64 fathoms (i.e., ca. 120 m).

Date 22 June 1913.

Collector Naokatsu Yanagi.

Label
Information
“28°10’N, 126°2’E to 28°20’N, 126°11’E, 64 fath., June 22 1913, Trawl, N. Yanaghi”.

Remarks Colony: two colonies.
These specimens are relatively sparsely branched, and the sclerites entering into the anthocodial formula are more slender than those of previously described specimens.