Pseudothesea flava
Description
Pseudothesea flava (Nutting, 1910)
Thesea flava Nutting, 1910: 52–53, pl. 8, fig. 1, 1a (Malay Archipelago).
Opinion: There is no evidence that this species occurs in the region and its true identity is unknown.
Justification:
These Indian records seem to be either invalid or unconfirmable: Thomas & George 1986: 102–103, fig. 1g, 1–4, z (Gulf of Mannar); Thomas & Jacob 1987: 21–23, fig. 1 A, B, C (Gulf of Mannar).
Literature analysis: Thesea flava was assigned to the genus Pseudothesea by Kükenthal (1924), but the sclerites of the species have never been figured and the true nature of Nutting’s specimens remain unknown. Thomas & George (1986) retain the original name and cite Pseudothesea flava as a synonym, but the identity of their material is not recognisable. Thomas & Jacob (1987) deal with the same material as in the 1986 paper mentioned above and clearly describe a species of Echinogorgia. The genus Thesea occurs only in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Thomas & George (1987) and Venkataraman et al. (2004) just listed the species under the old original name.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Plexauridae
- Genus
- Pseudothesea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Nutting
- Species
- flava
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudothesea flava (Nutting, 1910) sec. Ramvilas, Alderslade & Ranjeet, 2023
References
- Nutting, C. C. (1910) The Gorgonacea of the Siboga Expedition III. The Muriceidae. Siboga-Expeditie Monograph, 13 b, 1 - 108.
- Thomas, P. A. & George, R. M. (1986) A systematic appraisal of the commercially important gorgonids of the Indian seas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 28 (1 & 2), 96 - 112.
- Thomas, P. A. & Jacob, R. M. (1987) On five species of commercially important gorgonids new to Indian seas. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 34, 20 - 27.
- Kukenthal, W. (1924) Gorgonaria. Das Tierreich. Vol. 47. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin und Leipzig, xxviii + 478 pp.
- Thomas, P. A. & George, R. M. (1987) Gorgonid resources of India. Marine Fisheries Information Services, 74, 1 - 13.
- Venkataraman, K., Jeyabaskaran, R., Raghuram, K. P. & Alfred, J. R. B. (2004) Bibliography and checklist of corals and coral reef associated organisms of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India. Kolkatta, Occasional Paper, 226, 1 - 468.