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UMUTZ- Cnid-P-24

Scientific Name Stachyptilum superbum Studer

Type Status

Kingdom Animalia


Phylum Cnidaria


Class Anthozoa


Subclass Octocorallia


Order Pennatulacea


Suborder Sessiliflorae


Family Stachyptilidae


Genus Stachyptilum


Species superbum


Subspecies


Auther Studer


Locality Sagami Bay, west southwest of the Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture, 80-140 fathoms (i.e., ca. 150-260 m).

Date 19 August 1893.

Collector Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri and Kumakichi Aoki.

Reference Thomson & Rennet, 1927: 125-126.

Label
Information
“Name. Stachyptilum superbum, Loc. Kozuka-line, 80-140 faths. Date 19 Aug. 1893, Coll. Prof. Mitsukuri and Aoki”.

Remarks Colony: one colony.
“Kozuka-line” is a fishermen’s expressions used to pinpoint a fishing ground. It is a line from Fujiyama Mountain (see Remarks for UMUTZ-Cnid-P-62) in the direction of the shore slightly south of Arazaki Cape, Miura city, Kanagawa Prefecture. This specimen is now somewhat disintegrated.