Nicella pustulosa Thomson & Simpson 1909
Description
Nicella pustulosa Thomson & Simpson, 1909
Nicella pustulosa Thomson & Simpson, 1909: 267–268, pl. 5, fig. 6; pl. 8, fig. 11 (Laccadives; Andamans).
Opinion: This species does occur in the region but its true identity is unknown.
Justification:
Literature analysis: Kükenthal (1924) synonymised this species, using a question mark, with Phenilia sanguinolenta Gray, 1859, but the redescription of that species given by Bayer & Grasshoff (1994: 39) clearly shows that it is very different from Nicella pustulosa. It is more likely that the species belongs in the genus Verrucella, but some of the sclerites illustrated by Thomson & Simpson are quite unusual, so the actual genus represented by Thomson and Simpsons’ material remains unknown. Rao & Devi (2003) just list the species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ellisellidae
- Genus
- Nicella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomson & Simpson
- Species
- pustulosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nicella pustulosa Thomson, 1909 sec. Ramvilas, Alderslade & Ranjeet, 2023
References
- Thomson, J. A. & Simpson, J. J. (1909) An account of the alcyonarians collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator in the Indian Ocean. The Alcyonarians of the Littoral Area. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, 319 + xviii pp.
- Kukenthal, W. (1924) Gorgonaria. Das Tierreich. Vol. 47. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin und Leipzig, xxviii + 478 pp.
- Gray, J. E. (1859) Description of some new genera of lithophytes or stony zoophytes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1859, 479 - 486.
- Bayer, F. M. & Grasshoff, M. (1994) The genus group taxa of the family Ellisellidae, with clarification of the genera established by J. E. Gray (Cnidaria; Octocorallia). Senckenbergiana biologica, 74 (1 / 2), 21 - 45.
- Rao, D. V. & Devi, K. (2003) Studies on the soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) of Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional paper, 206, 1 - 99.