Errinopsis Broch 1951
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Genus Errinopsis Broch, 1951
Errinopsis Broch, 1951b: 40.—Boschma, 1956a: F104.—Cairns, 1983a: 77–78; 1983b: 455–457; 1992, 540: 545;
Type Species. Errinopsis reticulum Broch, 1951 b, by original designation.
Diagnosis. Colonies uniplanar to bushy, branching highly anastomotic (fenestrate), often with multiple attachments to substrate. Coenosteal texture a mixture of reticulate-granular and coarsely imbricate. Gastro- and dactylostyles uniformly arranged on branches. Gastrostyles present; dactylopore spines dimorphic, mound-like and horseshoe-shaped, the dactylotome facing downward (adcauline) as in Errina; dactylostyles absent. Ampullae superficial with lateral or apical efferent pores.
Discussion. This is a rarely reported genus consisting of only two species, previously known only from Subantarctic South America.
Holocene Distribution. Off southern South America and South Africa, 250– 771 m.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/284237 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6962FFB1A175DD27FFB5FF81F2432F5F (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/E98CE6DF-AF3B-4AAA-95CB-8ACD615C9FCC (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/955B87C9A164DD36FF22FD0EF6372B0E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Stylasteridae
- Genus
- Errinopsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anthoathecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Broch
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Errinopsis Broch, 1951 sec. Cairns & Zibrowius, 2013