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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2998FA939295FA5A" bold="true" box="[151,396,1403,1429]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Metridium farcimen</emphasis>
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(
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, Appendix 14)
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Synonyms: see
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2998F9E29208F9EC" bold="true" box="[151,273,1546,1571]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Specimens to
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long in life (Fautin
<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2BCBF9E391E4F9ED" box="[708,765,1546,1570]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">et al.</emphasis>
1989); preserved specimens greatly contracted (
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or less in length). Column smooth, white to pale salmon or brown. Margin typically contracted, partially or completely hiding oral disc (
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). Oral disc with lobes thickened with mesoglea. Oral disc covered in hundreds of tentacles; marginal tentacles shorter than discal tentacles. Pedal disc typically attached to rock or shell. For a detailed description of
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<taxonomicName id="A8F54D03FFE0370D28D6F973917DF97D" baseAuthorityName="Brandt" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[473,612,1690,1714]" class="Anthozoa" family="Metridiidae" genus="Metridium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Actiniaria" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="farcimen">M. farcimen</taxonomicName>
,
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see Fautin
<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2BE6F9739038F97D" box="[745,801,1690,1714]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">et al.</emphasis>
(1989).
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D29C8F956923AF918" bold="true" box="[199,291,1726,1751]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" reason="1">Cnidae.</emphasis>
Spirocysts, basitrichs, microbasic
<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2BA7F95791AFF919" box="[680,694,1727,1750]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">p</emphasis>
-mastigophores, microbasic amastigophores.
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D29C9F90A9279F934" bold="true" box="[198,352,1762,1787]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" reason="1">Distribution.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2867F90A9151F935" box="[360,584,1762,1786]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Metridium farcimen</emphasis>
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was described by
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from
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,
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. Specimens have since been collected throughout the North Pacific Ocean and we extend the range of the species from subtidal waters to
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, north to the Bering Sea and within the North Pacific from
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to
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(
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D29C8F8A692A7F8A8" bold="true" box="[199,446,1870,1895]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" reason="1">Taxonomic remarks.</emphasis>
Fautin
<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2B18F8A79148F8A9" box="[535,593,1870,1894]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">et al.</emphasis>
(1989) described as a new species
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2AE8F8A697C5F8A9" box="[999,1244,1870,1894]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Metridium giganteum</emphasis>
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, distinguishing it from the two other species found along the northeastern Pacific coast,
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2C3BF89B9685F845" box="[1332,1436,1906,1930]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">M. senile</emphasis>
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(
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) and
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2893F87F92E2F861" box="[412,507,1942,1966]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">M. exile</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="0B644B71FFE0370D2B08F87E9188F861" author="Hand, C." box="[519,657,1942,1966]" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" pagination="189 - 251" refId="ref24892" refString="Hand, C. (1956, for 1955) The sea anemones of central California Part III. The acontiarian anemones. Wasmann Journal of Biology, 13 (2), 189 - 251." type="journal article" year="1956">Hand, 1956</bibRefCitation>
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. However,
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found several names that had previously been applied to this species: its valid name is
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE0370D2A1CF8539083F81D" box="[787,922,1978,2002]" italics="true" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">M. farcimen</emphasis>
(
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)
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.
</paragraph>
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Its great size and lobed oral disc make large specimens of
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE1370C2A79FF709740FF7F" box="[886,1113,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Metridium farcimen</emphasis>
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among the most distinctive species of sea anemone in the North Pacific. However, small specimens of
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE1370C2AFFFF559760FF1B" box="[1008,1145,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">M. farcimen</emphasis>
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have been confused with and misidentified as
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE1370C2870FF0992FCFF37" box="[383,485,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">M. senile</emphasis>
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in publication, and because of their similarities, it is not possible to determine which were the subject of some publications (
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). Specimens of
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<emphasis id="5D81EA92FFE1370C2AEBFEED9772FED3" box="[996,1131,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">M. farcimen</emphasis>
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can grow much larger than specimens of
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,
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which reach a maximum length of only
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(Fautin
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1989). The oral disc of
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is divided into distinct stiffened lobes whereas the oral disc of
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is flaccid and the lobes are less distinct.
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See Appendix 14.
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