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UMUTZ- Cnid-A-52

Scientific Name Siphonogorgia sp. 3

Type Status

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Alcyonacea


Suborder Alcyoniina


Family Nidaliidae


Genus Siphonogorgia


Species sp. 3


Subspecies


Auther


Locality Sagami Bay, Misaki, Miura city, Kanagawa Prefecture, 330-340 fathoms (i.e., ca. 600-620 m).

Date May, 1895.

Collector Kumakichi Aoki.

Label
Information
“Siphonogorgia sp. Alcyonacea, Alcyonaria, Misaki, 330-340 hiro V1895”; “巌戸掛外, 330-40尋 38年5月 熊”.

Remarks Colony: one colony.
With somewhat non-retracted polyps. See Remarks for UMUTZ-Cnid-A-96 for the meaning of “巌戸掛外”, i.e. “outside of the Iwado-line”.