Echinogorgia multispinosa Thomson & Henderson 1905
Description
Echinogorgia multispinosa Thomson & Henderson, 1905
Echinogorgia multispinosa Thomson & Henderson, 1905: 293–294, pl. 6, fig. 1 (Sri Lanka).
? Echinogorgia multispinosa Thomson & Simpson 1909: 218 ((Andamans; Coromandel coast).
Opinion: This species does occur in the region but its true identity is unknown.
Justification: This Indian record could be valid: Thomson & Simpson 1909: 218 (Andamans; Coromandel coast).
Literature analysis: The species was originally collected in Sri Lanka, and a little later one of the original authors claimed it also occurred in the region, but neither of the two descriptions included any sclerite images and the original drawing of a branch portion shows the surface covered in interlocking or overlapping irregular spindlelike sclerites, which is most certainly not a character of Echinogorgia. Until the species is redescribed it remains of uncertain generic identity. Rao & Devi (2003) just list the species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Plexauridae
- Genus
- Echinogorgia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Alcyonacea
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomson & Henderson
- Species
- multispinosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echinogorgia multispinosa Thomson, 1905 sec. Ramvilas, Alderslade & Ranjeet, 2023
References
- Thomson, J. A. & Henderson, W. D. (1905) Report on the Alcyonaria collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. In: Herdman, W. A. (Eds.), Report of the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. Part 3. Supplementary report. The Royal Society, London, pp. 269 - 238.
- 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.
- 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.