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UMUTZ- Cnid-A-103

Scientific Name Telesto tubulosa Kinoshita

Type Status Holotype

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Alcyonacea


Suborder Stolonifera


Family Telestidae


Genus Telesto


Species tubulosa


Subspecies


Auther Kinoshita


Locality Kagoshima Prefecture, Kamise, off Yamakawa fishery port, Ibusuki city, 70 fathoms (i.e., ca. 130 m).

Date 8 April 1896.

Collector Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri and Juta Hara.

Reference Kinoshita, 1909: 114-117; Utinomi, 1958: 91-93.

Label
Information
“Telestidae, Type sp. Telesto tubulosa Kinoshita, Kagoshima Bay, 70 fathoms, off Yamakawa, coll. Mitsukuri and Hara, 8. Apr. 1896, with Nobenawa wire”; “産地 山川沖延縄(神瀬), 明治29年4月8日 採集 箕作, 原”.

Remarks Colony: three colonies connecting with a stolon.
It seems that Kinoshita (1909) figured the largest colony.