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Laeta
GBIF:159265432
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Diagnosis. Colony with polyps connected through stolons, which are ribbon-like. Oral disk with eight furrows, running from intertentacular margin to the mouth of the polyp, dividing the membrane into eight shallow lobes. Distal two-thirds of tentacles extend from fused margins of the oral membrane. Sclerites of anthocodiae are rods. Sclerites of calyx are table-radiates and three types of rods; (1) branched rods with high tuberculate processes, (2) club-like rods and (3) table-radiate-like rods. Sclerites of stolon are fused table-radiates, which form a sheet. Sclerites colourless. Zooxanthellate.
Lau, Yee Wah, Reimer, James D. (2019): A first phylogenetic study on stoloniferous octocorals off the coast of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, with the description of two new genera and five new species. ZooKeys 872: 127-158, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.872.36288, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.872.36288
Etymology. From Latin laeta, meaning bright, charming, cheerful. Gender: feminine.
Lau, Yee Wah, Reimer, James D. (2019): A first phylogenetic study on stoloniferous octocorals off the coast of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, with the description of two new genera and five new species. ZooKeys 872: 127-158, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.872.36288, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.872.36288
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