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Zibrowius primnoidus Carreiro-Silva, Braga-Henriques, Sampaio, de Matos, Porteiro & Ocana, 2010
Zibrowius primnoidus is a small deep-water crustose anemone discovered from the Azores region, northeast Atlantic, at depths of 110-800 meters and sea temperatures of 10°C to 15°C, and from the Mediterranean at depths of 260 meters with temperatures of 13°C to 14°C, also in association with the deep-sea gorgonian Callogorgia verticillata (Pallas, 1766).
These colonial zoantharia had attached to the surface of the deep-sea gorgonian Callogorgia verticillata, often in orthogonal arrangement around the axis of the coral.
In the living state, the capitulum and oral disc are light brown with short translucent tentacles, and the polyps are light brown and connected by a thin coenenchyma that grows over the gorgonian axis.
Polyps occur at intervals of about 1 - 1.5 polyps in diameter, often in orthogonal arrangement.
Living polyps have an oral disc of 3 - 4 mm in diameter, a column diameter of 2 - 3 mm, and a height of 3 - 4 mm.
They have two rows of 18 - 26 transparent, pointed tentacles are pointed, the length of the tentacles is shorter than the diameter of the expanded oral disc.
The pharynx is oval and orange, the ectoderm and outer mesogloea are densely encrusted with mineral particles, gorgonian sclerites, foraminifera and sponge needles and therefore appear "speckled" white.
At the depths where the gorgonian settles with its sessile crustose anemones, photosynthesis by zooxanthellae is no longer possible, so both animals depend on catching zooplankton,
Source:
Hexcorallians (Hexacorallia: Hexcorallia) Associated with Cold-Water Corals in the Azores Region: New Species and Associations in the Deep Sea
Autoren: Marina Carreiro-Silva , Oscar Ocaña , David Stanković, Íris Sampaio, Filipe M. Porteiro, Marie-Claire Fabri and Sergio Stefanni
DOI:10.3389/fmars.2017.00088
Synonymised names
Isozoanthus primnoidus Carreiro-Silva, Braga-Henriques, Sampaio, de Matos, Porteiro & Ocana, 2010 · alternative representation
Zibrowius primnoidus is a small deep-water crustose anemone discovered from the Azores region, northeast Atlantic, at depths of 110-800 meters and sea temperatures of 10°C to 15°C, and from the Mediterranean at depths of 260 meters with temperatures of 13°C to 14°C, also in association with the deep-sea gorgonian Callogorgia verticillata (Pallas, 1766).
These colonial zoantharia had attached to the surface of the deep-sea gorgonian Callogorgia verticillata, often in orthogonal arrangement around the axis of the coral.
In the living state, the capitulum and oral disc are light brown with short translucent tentacles, and the polyps are light brown and connected by a thin coenenchyma that grows over the gorgonian axis.
Polyps occur at intervals of about 1 - 1.5 polyps in diameter, often in orthogonal arrangement.
Living polyps have an oral disc of 3 - 4 mm in diameter, a column diameter of 2 - 3 mm, and a height of 3 - 4 mm.
They have two rows of 18 - 26 transparent, pointed tentacles are pointed, the length of the tentacles is shorter than the diameter of the expanded oral disc.
The pharynx is oval and orange, the ectoderm and outer mesogloea are densely encrusted with mineral particles, gorgonian sclerites, foraminifera and sponge needles and therefore appear "speckled" white.
At the depths where the gorgonian settles with its sessile crustose anemones, photosynthesis by zooxanthellae is no longer possible, so both animals depend on catching zooplankton,
Source:
Hexcorallians (Hexacorallia: Hexcorallia) Associated with Cold-Water Corals in the Azores Region: New Species and Associations in the Deep Sea
Autoren: Marina Carreiro-Silva , Oscar Ocaña , David Stanković, Íris Sampaio, Filipe M. Porteiro, Marie-Claire Fabri and Sergio Stefanni
DOI:10.3389/fmars.2017.00088
Synonymised names
Isozoanthus primnoidus Carreiro-Silva, Braga-Henriques, Sampaio, de Matos, Porteiro & Ocana, 2010 · alternative representation
