Alcyonium Digitatum Linnaeus, 1758

Alcyonium digitatum Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID: 125333

DEAD MAN'S FINGERS SOFT CORAL

1 © Vasco Ferreira © Vasco Ferreira

Características identiﬁcativas

White, yellow, orange or brownish in colour. Colonies form erect ﬂeshy masses of stout, ﬁnger-like lobes. Polyps monomorphic, secondary polyps arising from solenia within the coenenchyme. Sclerites abundant in surface layer of coenenchyme, forming a crust. Anthocodia translucent white.

2 Cross-sections of ﬁngers have few cavities, usually less than 12. Found in areas of strong water movement, unlikeAlcyonium glomeratum which prefers sheltered sites.

Facilmente confundível com:

Alcyonium glomeratum Alcionário

Sinónimos

Lobularia digitata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Referências

Budd, G.C. 2008.Alcyonium digitatum Dead man’s fingers. In Tyler-Walters H. and Hiscock K. (eds) Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Reviews, [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Available from: http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/detail/1187 additional source Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. [details] original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online athttps://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.542 [details] basis of record van Ofwegen, L.; Grasshoff, M.; van der Land, J. (2001). Octocorallia (excl. Pennatulacea), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 104-105[details] additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates:

3 Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. [details] additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p. [details] additional source Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Erlangen, Germany, September 2003. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp 279-296. [details] additional source Dyntaxa. (2013). Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details] subsequent type designation Mantell, G. 1822. The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. (Lupton Relfe: London): 1-328, pls I-XLII. [details] additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. [details] context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Epibenthos and demersal fish monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [details] additional source Madsen, F. J. (1944). Octocorallia (Stolonifera – Telestacea – Xeniidae – Alcyonacea – Gorgonacea). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, Vol. V. Bianco Luno A/S. 5: 1-65. [details] additional source Watling, L.; Auster, P. (2005). Distribution of deep-water Alcyonacea off the Northeast Coast of the United States. In: Freiwald, A., R.J. Murray, editors. Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Second Deep-Sea Coral Symposium. 279-296. [details] subsequent type designation Mantell, G. (1822). The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. Lupton Relfe: London. 1-328, pls I-XLII. [details] additional source Verseveldt, J. (1973). On the validity of Alcyonium siderium Verrill (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. 46(16): 209-216, plates 1-2. [details] original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.542 [details] additional source Thorpe, L. (1928). Alcyonaria of the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 36(247): 479-531. [details]

4 additional source Kükenthal, W. (1906). Alcyonacea. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer “Valdivia”, 1898–1899. 13: 1-111, plates 1-12., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2127878 [details] source of synonymy Deichmann, E (1936). The Alcyonaria of the western part of the Atlantic ocean. Illustrated catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoӧlogy, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4363633#page/11/mode/1up [details] additional source Broch, H. (1912). Die Alcyonarien des Trondhjemsfjordes. I. Alcyonacea. Det Kongelige Norske videnskabers selskabs skrifter. 1911 (7): 1-48., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8418944 [details]

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