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UMUTZ- Cnid-A-104

Scientific Name Chromonephthea hirotai (Utinomi)

Type Status Holotype

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Alcyonacea


Suborder Alcyoniina


Family Nephtheidae


Genus Chromonephthea


Species hirotai


Subspecies


Auther (Utinomi)


Locality Sagami Bay, 1.5 miles (i.e., ca. 2.5 km) off Niijima Island.

Date 10 August 1893.

Collector Sadamori Hirota.

Reference Utinomi, 1951: 31-33; 1960: 22; Ofwegen, 2005: 111-114..

Label
Information
“Eunephthya hirotai Utinomi, Loc. 1.5 miles off Niisima, Date Aug. 10 1893, Coll. Sadamori Hirota, ident. H. Utinomi, TYPUS.”; “新島沖20町, 明治二十六年, 大ノ浦丸”.

Remarks Colony: two large and several small fragments.
The first label is an original label of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University. These fragments are all considerably disintegrated.