Rumphella torta
Description
Rumphella torta (Klunzinger, 1877)
Plexaura torta Klunzinger, 1877: 52, pl. 3, fig. 10 (Red Sea).
Rumphella torta Grasshoff 2000: 56 (Red Sea).
Opinion: It is not possible to determine if this species occurs in the region.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Kumar et al. 2014a: 58, pl. 26, fig. A–E (Andaman and Nicobar Islands); Fernando et al. 2017: 222, pl. 106, fig. A–E (Andaman and Nicobar Islands).
Literature analysis: This species, originally named Plexaura torta, forms large bushy colonies with long drooping end branches. The descriptions of an Indian specimen given by Kumar et al. (2014a) and Fernando et al. (2017) are identical but it is difficult to tell whether their material is the same as this taxon because, although their colony looks like this species, the authors only figure nine sclerites (two of which are identical) and most of sclerite forms that are well illustrated by Grasshoff (2000) are not included in their figure. This species has only been reported from the Red Sea and East Africa.
Kumar et al. (2015, 2018) lists the species and presents one of the colony images from the 2014 and 2017 papers above. Kumar et al. (2019b) lists the species with a colony image, while Kumar et al. (2018a) just lists the species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gorgoniidae
- Genus
- Rumphella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Klunzinger
- Species
- torta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rumphella torta (Klunzinger, 1877) sec. Ramvilas, Alderslade & Ranjeet, 2023
References
- Klunzinger, C. B. (1877) Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres. I. Alcyonarien und Malacodermen. Gutmann'schen Buchhandlung (Otto Enslin), Berlin, 98 pp.
- Grasshoff, M. (2000) The gorgonians of the Sinai coast and the Strait of Gubal, Red Sea (Coelenterata, Octocorallia). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 224, 1 - 125.
- Kumar, J. S. Y., Raghunathan, C., Raghuraman, R., Sreeraj, C. R. & Venkataraman, K. (2014 a) Handbook on Gorgonians (Octocorallia) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 119 pp.
- Fernando, S. A, Venkataraman, K. & Raghunathan, C. (2017) Gorgonians of Indian sea. Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 330 pp. Available from: https: // www. nhbs. com / (accessed 21 March 2022)
- Kumar, J. S. Y., Raghunathan, C. & Venkataraman, K. (2015) Abundance of shallow water octocorals in the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago, India. In: Venkataraman, K. & Sivaperuman, C. (Eds.), Marine faunal diversity in India: taxonomy, ecology and conservation. London Academic Press, London, pp. 15 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / B 978 - 0 - 12 - 801948 - 1.00002 - 1
- Geetha, S., Kumar, J. S. Y, Raghunathan, C. & Sornaraj, R. (2018) Space competition studies between Briareum violaceum (Octocorallia; Alcyonacea) and scleractinian corals in Shark Island, north Andaman, India. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Studies, 47 (12), 2390 - 2394.
- Kumar, J. S. Y., Geetha, S., Raghunathan, C. & Sornaraj, R. (2019 b) Diversity and distribution of shallow water octocorallia from Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, South Andaman, India. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, 48 (10), 1567 - 1575.
- Kumar, J. S. Y., Geetha, S., Raghunathan, C. & Sornaraj, R. (2018 a) Diversity and distribution of gorgonians (Octocorallia) in the Long Island and it's adjacent areas in Middle Andaman, India. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, 47, 96 - 102.