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Taxon
Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871
Nomenclature
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Family: CladocorynidaeGenus: Cladocoryne
Species:
Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871
Usage:
valid
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Synonyms: 4
SUMMARY
Stems simple, up to 2 mm high, perisarc with a few proximal annulations, smooth thereafter, thinning a little and tapering below hydranth.
Hydranth with several whorls of branched tentacles bearing many globular capitula armed with nematocysts; hypostome clavate.
Gonophores large, globular, borne among oral tentacles.
Cnidome:
i) ?Stenoteles, capsule subspherical, diameter 5-7 µm, very abundant.
ii) ?Stenoteles, capsule subspherical, 11-12 x 10-12 µm, shaft 8 µm, indistinct, abundant.
iii) Macrobasic euryteles, capsule 66-75 x 25-30 µm, tubule long, thick, unarmed proximally, with distal spirals of spines and spear-shaped tip armed with spines; in capitate tentacles.
Colour: white (preserved material).