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UMUTZ- Cnid-P-19

Scientific Name Scytalium martensi Kölliker

Type Status

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Pennatulacea


Suborder Subselliflorae


Family Virgulariidae


Genus Scytalium


Species martensi


Subspecies


Auther Kölliker


Locality Sagami Bay, Misaki Harbor, Miura city, Kanagawa Prefecture, 200 fathoms (i.e., ca. 360 m).

Date May, 1895.

Collector Kumakichi Aoki.

Reference Thomson & Rennet, 1927: 136.

Label
Information
“Scytalium splendens”; “Loc. Vicinity of Misaki Harbor, 200 faths., Date. May 1895, Coll. Aoki”; “Funiculina quadrangularis”.

Remarks Colony: one colony.
This specimen is a very young colony. Scytalium splendens may be a synonym of this species. The last label might have been placed in this bottle by mistake.