Trimuricea
Creators: name: Samimi-Namin, Kaveh
name: Van Ofwegen, Leen P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Plexauridae
Trimuricea

description: Artificial key to the species of Trimuricea
1. All sclerites faintly yellow.................................................................... T. flava n. sp.
- All sclerites colourless................................................................................. 2
2. Colony without anastomoses; unilateral spinose spindles up to 1 mm long present.............. T. africana Gordon, 1926
- Colony with numerous anastomoses....................................................................... 3
3. Coenenchymal spindles and thornscales shorter than 0.5 mm long, with simple tubercles only......................... 4
- Coenenchymal spindles and thornscales longer than 0.5 mm long, with complex and simple tubercles................... 7
4. Thornscales with smooth, short thorn up to 0.10 mm long; spindles with one or more thorny end....... T. omanensis n. sp.
- Thornscales with longer thorn........................................................................... 5
5. Thornscales and polyp triradiates with smooth, blunt ended thorn and upper ray............. T. caledonica Grasshoff, 1999
- Thornscales and polyp triradiate without smooth, blunt upper ray............................................... 6
6. Thornscales with simple tubercles and arms that do not branch; slender coenenchymal spindles up to 0.5 mm long................................................................................................. T. bicolor n. sp.
- Thornscales with simple tubercles and complex base; slender coenenchymal spindles up to 0.35 mm long................................................................................................ T. inermis (Nutting, 1910)
7. Thornscales with one long, smooth, thorn and simple base.................... T. reticulata (Thomson & Simpson, 1909)
- Thornscales with shorter echinulate or tuberculate thorn, and complex base........................................ 8
8. Thornscales and coenenchymal spindles with complex, dense tubercles, thornspindles and spindles that resemble unilaterally spinose spindles present................................................................ T. tuberculosa n. sp.
- No thornspindles and spindles that resemble unilaterally spinose spindles present................................... 9
9. Most thornscales with a single thorn........................................................... T. persica n. sp.
- Most thornscales with several thorns..................................................................... 10
10. Spindles with one blunt end present................................................. T. merguiensis Gordon, 1926
- Spindles having similarly shaped ends......................................................... T. spinosa n. sp.
description: Published as part of Samimi-Namin, Kaveh & Van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2016, A revision of Trimuricea Gordon, 1926 (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Plexauridae) with the description of six new species, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 4105 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/271230