| 翻訳と辞書 |
Taiaroidae
Taiaroidae is a family of deep-water, solitary marine octocorals in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a monotypic family containing a single genus ''Taiaroa'' and a single species, ''Taiaroa tauhou''. The species was first described by the marine zoologists Frederick M. Bayer and Katherine Margaret Muzik in 1976. The scientific name derives from "Taiaroa", the submarine canyon off New Zealand in which the first specimens were found and "tauhou", the Maori word for "strange".〔
==Taxonomy==
In 1973, a new species of solitary octocoral was dredged from the seabed off the Otago Peninsula, New Zealand, at a depth of . At first it was believed to be a species of burrowing sea anemone and it was given to marine biologist Dr Cadet Hand for examination.〔 He quickly realised it was an octocoral and sought the assistance of marine biologist Dr Frederick Bayer, who gave it the name ''Taiaroa tauhou''. In 1976 the suborder Protoalcyonaria was re-established to accommodate it and further specimens which had been discovered.〔 This higher-level taxon had been erected by Sydney Hickson in 1894 for non-colonial octocorals. However, there was doubt whether these were really solitary, or whether they were just the young forms of colonial species, and it became redundant when the genera included in it were all transferred to other taxa.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Taiaroidae」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|