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Paraphelliactis tangi is a sea anemone that resembles the carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) from the sundew family, when a fly touches the Venus flytrap's trigger bristles, the trap snaps shut.
The prey catch of Paraphelliactis tangi works on the same principle.
The deep-sea anemone was found in a deep-sea channel, the Yap Trench, which forms a deep-sea channel up to 8850 m deep and 560 km long in the western Pacific Ocean
The holotype had attached itself to rocks and was collected on December 16, 2014.
Paratypes of the anemone were discovered entwined on sponge spicules on foraminiferal mud bottoms.
The deep-water sea anemone was discovered and collected using the FaXian (Discovery) ROUV submersible.
Brief info:
Body column covered with brown cuticle, height 1.3cm - 7cm.
diameter of pedal disc 2.7 - 8.9 cm
oral disc pink, elliptic, diameter of longitudinal axis 0.6 - 5.4 cm
Tentacles retractable, smooth, tapering and without mesogloeal thickenings on aboral side, length up to 3.0 cm
Etymology. Named in honor of the late Chinese - marine biologist, Prof. Zhican TANG, for his great contribution to the taxonomy of Cnidaria in China.
The prey catch of Paraphelliactis tangi works on the same principle.
The deep-sea anemone was found in a deep-sea channel, the Yap Trench, which forms a deep-sea channel up to 8850 m deep and 560 km long in the western Pacific Ocean
The holotype had attached itself to rocks and was collected on December 16, 2014.
Paratypes of the anemone were discovered entwined on sponge spicules on foraminiferal mud bottoms.
The deep-water sea anemone was discovered and collected using the FaXian (Discovery) ROUV submersible.
Brief info:
Body column covered with brown cuticle, height 1.3cm - 7cm.
diameter of pedal disc 2.7 - 8.9 cm
oral disc pink, elliptic, diameter of longitudinal axis 0.6 - 5.4 cm
Tentacles retractable, smooth, tapering and without mesogloeal thickenings on aboral side, length up to 3.0 cm
Etymology. Named in honor of the late Chinese - marine biologist, Prof. Zhican TANG, for his great contribution to the taxonomy of Cnidaria in China.
