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UMUTZ- Cnid-A-68

Scientific Name Cladiella sphaerophora (Klunzinger)

Type Status

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Alcyonacea


Suborder Alcyoniina


Family Alcyoniidae


Genus Cladiella


Species sphaerophora


Subspecies


Auther (Klunzinger)


Locality Bonin Islands, Anijima Island.

Date early April, 1894.

Collector Sadamori Hirota and Ryotaro Sekiguchi.

Reference Utinomi, 1956: 226-227.

Label
Information
“小笠原兄島, 明治27年4月上旬, 弘田, 関口”; “Micropsicularia sphaerophora, Ogasawara Is., IV 1894, H. Utinomi det.”; “Lobularia sp., #2, F. M. B.”.

Remarks Colony: two colonies.
It seems that these specimens were first examined by F. M. Bayer of the Smithsonian Institution and then by Huzio Utinomi of Kyoto University.