137 lines
12 KiB
XML
137 lines
12 KiB
XML
<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.522.10294" ID-GBIF-Dataset="4ab1a1e9-9b98-42e8-bea4-604011ae7d70" ID-PMC="PMC4591733" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-522-1" ID-PubMed="26448719" ID-ZBK="72178B43CB244C57A24323CB13B9A8BF" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2015" ModsDocID="1313-2970-522-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 522" ModsDocTitle="Melithaeidae of Japan (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) re-examined with descriptions of 11 new species" checkinTime="1451243973288" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Matsumoto, Asako K. & van Ofwegen, Leen P." docDate="2015" docId="8DA88B6C864C82BD99A83741733410D1" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 522: 1-127" docOrigin="ZooKeys 522" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.522.10294" docTitle="Melithaea isonoi Matsumoto & Ofwegen, 2015, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="F00B7FCB-6C54-49B6-B340-C3632C6CA7A2" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="19" masterDocId="DB31BE618A66FF8AFFA8FFBD9346FFF5" masterDocTitle="Melithaeidae of Japan (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) re-examined with descriptions of 11 new species" masterLastPageNumber="127" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="17" updateTime="1668160728543" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
|
|
<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
|
|
<mods:titleInfo>
|
|
<mods:title>Melithaeidae of Japan (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) re-examined with descriptions of 11 new species</mods:title>
|
|
</mods:titleInfo>
|
|
<mods:name type="personal">
|
|
<mods:role>
|
|
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
|
</mods:role>
|
|
<mods:namePart>Matsumoto, Asako K.</mods:namePart>
|
|
</mods:name>
|
|
<mods:name type="personal">
|
|
<mods:role>
|
|
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
|
</mods:role>
|
|
<mods:namePart>van Ofwegen, Leen P.</mods:namePart>
|
|
</mods:name>
|
|
<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
|
|
<mods:relatedItem type="host">
|
|
<mods:titleInfo>
|
|
<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
|
|
</mods:titleInfo>
|
|
<mods:part>
|
|
<mods:date>2015</mods:date>
|
|
<mods:detail type="volume">
|
|
<mods:number>522</mods:number>
|
|
</mods:detail>
|
|
<mods:extent unit="page">
|
|
<mods:start>1</mods:start>
|
|
<mods:end>127</mods:end>
|
|
</mods:extent>
|
|
</mods:part>
|
|
</mods:relatedItem>
|
|
<mods:location>
|
|
<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.522.10294</mods:url>
|
|
</mods:location>
|
|
<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
|
|
<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.522.10294</mods:identifier>
|
|
<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-522-1</mods:identifier>
|
|
<mods:identifier type="ZBK">72178B43CB244C57A24323CB13B9A8BF</mods:identifier>
|
|
<mods:identifier type="ZooBank">72178B43CB244C57A24323CB13B9A8BF</mods:identifier>
|
|
</mods:mods>
|
|
<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152062421" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F00B7FCB-6C54-49B6-B340-C3632C6CA7A2" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/8DA88B6C864C82BD99A83741733410D1" lastPageId="18" lastPageNumber="19" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="multiple">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Taxon classification Animalia Alcyonacea Melithaeidae</paragraph>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="nomenclature">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
|
|
<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/F00B7FCB-6C54-49B6-B340-C3632C6CA7A2" class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea isonoi" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="isonoi">Melithaea isonoi</taxonomicName>
|
|
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="16" pageNumber="17">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
|
Figures 28c, 33, 34, 35
|
|
</paragraph>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="reference_group">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Acabaria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acabaria" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">
|
|
<pageBreakToken pageId="17" pageNumber="18" start="start">?</pageBreakToken>
|
|
Acabaria
|
|
</taxonomicName>
|
|
sp. A:
|
|
<bibRefCitation author="Aguilar-Hurtado, C" journalOrPublisher="Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" pagination="56 - 65" title="The Melithaeidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago: molecular and morphological examinations." url="10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.005" volume="64" year="2012">Aguilar-Hurtado et al. 2012</bibRefCitation>
|
|
: 63, fig. 7 (Okinawa).
|
|
</paragraph>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="materials_examined">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Material examined.</paragraph>
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Holotype UMUTZ-CnidG-34, Coral Reef, Cape Chinen, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, 15 April 1901; paratype UMUTZ-CnidG-256, same data as holotype.</paragraph>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="description">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Description.</paragraph>
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">The holotype is 12 cm long and 11 cm wide, branching is in one plane and a holdfast is lacking (Fig. 28c). The stem is 10 mm wide, the end branches only 2 mm wide. The colony has no anastomoses. The polyps are situated biserially on the branches, the calyces are dome-shaped, and the polyps retracted.</paragraph>
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Points with slightly bent spindles up to 0.20 mm long, distal end with leaves (Fig. 33a). Collaret with bent spindles up to 0.20 mm long, middle part with more developed tubercles (Fig. 33b). Tentacles with platelets, the larger ones crescent-shaped with irregular projections (Fig. 33c). These platelets are up to 0.10 mm long. Pharynx with straight spiny rods, up to 0.05 mm long (Fig. 33d). Coenenchyme with capstans (Fig. 34a), and unilaterally spinose spheroids, 0.05-0.10 mm long (Fig. 34b). Furthermore spindles are present, 0.10-0.25 mm long (Fig. 34c). All with simple and complex tubercles. The calyces with additional leaf clubs, up to 0.20 mm long (Fig. 33f). The axis has smooth and sparsely tuberculate rods (Fig. 33e).</paragraph>
|
|
<caption pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
|
|
Figure 33. Sclerites of
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea isonoi" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="isonoi">Melithaea isonoi</taxonomicName>
|
|
sp. n., UMUTZ-CnidG-34; a point spindles b collaret spindles c tentacle sclerites d pharynx rods e axial rod; f clubs of calyx.
|
|
</paragraph>
|
|
</caption>
|
|
<caption pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
|
|
Figure 34. Sclerites of
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea isonoi" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="isonoi">Melithaea isonoi</taxonomicName>
|
|
sp. n., UMUTZ-CnidG-34; a capstans b unilaterally spinose spheroids c spindles of coenenchyme.
|
|
</paragraph>
|
|
</caption>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="color">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
|
|
<pageBreakToken pageId="18" pageNumber="19" start="start">Color</pageBreakToken>
|
|
.
|
|
</paragraph>
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">The colony is orange as are most sclerites; a few are yellow colored.</paragraph>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="distribution">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Distribution.</paragraph>
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Only known from Okinawa Prefecture (Fig. 35). The material is probably collected during the Ryukyu (= Okinawa) expedition by K. Mitsukuri and I. Ikeda, in April, 1901.</paragraph>
|
|
<caption pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
|
|
Figure 35. Distribution of
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea doederleini" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="doederleini">Melithaea doederleini</taxonomicName>
|
|
sp. n. (*),
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea frondosa" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="frondosa">Melithaea frondosa</taxonomicName>
|
|
(●), and
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea isonoi" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="isonoi">Melithaea isonoi</taxonomicName>
|
|
sp. n. (■).
|
|
</paragraph>
|
|
</caption>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="etymology">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Etymology.</paragraph>
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">The species is named after the late Prof. Naohide Isono who has worked on Japanese zoological history from the Edo to Meiji period, in appreciation of informing the first author about the collectors data in this publication.</paragraph>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
<subSubSection pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="remarks">
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Remarks.</paragraph>
|
|
<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
|
|
The species resembles
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea japonica" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="japonica">Melithaea japonica</taxonomicName>
|
|
but differs in having leaf clubs in the calyces. It resembles
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea tenuis" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="tenuis">Melithaea tenuis</taxonomicName>
|
|
regarding the unilaterally spinose spheroids, but it has longer spindles in the coenenchyme. It could be
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Acabaria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Acabaria" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">Acabaria</taxonomicName>
|
|
sp. A. of
|
|
<bibRefCitation author="Aguilar-Hurtado, C" journalOrPublisher="Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" pagination="56 - 65" title="The Melithaeidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago: molecular and morphological examinations." url="10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.005" volume="64" year="2012">Aguilar-Hurtado et al. (2012)</bibRefCitation>
|
|
, but in that case we must accept that these authors did not illustrate the remarkable unilaterally spinose spheroids that we found among the sclerites. The
|
|
<normalizedToken originalValue="“spines”">"spines"</normalizedToken>
|
|
of these spheroids are very rounded, hardly resembling spines. However, a more appropriate term than spinose spheroids is not available (
|
|
<bibRefCitation author="Bayer, FM" journalOrPublisher="Brill, Leiden" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" pagination="1 - 75" title="Illustrated trilingual glossary of morphological and anatomical terms applied to Octocorallia" year="1983">Bayer et al. 1983</bibRefCitation>
|
|
). Moreover, all colonies of
|
|
<bibRefCitation author="Aguilar-Hurtado, C" journalOrPublisher="Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" pagination="56 - 65" title="The Melithaeidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) of the Ryukyu Archipelago: molecular and morphological examinations." url="10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.005" volume="64" year="2012">Aguilar-Hurtado et al. (2012)</bibRefCitation>
|
|
had anastomoses while
|
|
<taxonomicName class="Anthozoa" family="Melithaeidae" genus="Melithaea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melithaea isonoi" order="Alcyonacea" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="isonoi">Melithaea isonoi</taxonomicName>
|
|
has none.
|
|
</paragraph>
|
|
</subSubSection>
|
|
</treatment>
|
|
</document> |