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Classification
Beania erecta
Beania Genus
Synonymy
- Beania Johnston, 1840: p.272; Ryland & Hayward, 1977: p.150; Liu, 1984: p.257; Liu & Hu, 1991: p.82.
Original Description
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"Genus Beania
(Det nomen Dom. Gulielmus Bean, zoophytorum investigator peritissimus.)
Char. Polyparium phytoïdeum, filiforme, repens,corneum; surculis tubulosis, diffuse ramosis, vesiculiferis. Vesiculаe singulatim sparsаe, erectae, magnae, ovatx, uno latere spinosze. Polypi ignoti.
Polypidom confervoid, horny, the shoots creeping, filiform, tubular, irregularly divided; the cells very large, sessile, erect, scattered and solitary, ovate with a double spinous keel on one side. Polypes unknown." (Johnston, 1840:272)
Members
- Beania costata Species
- Beania erecta
- Beania livingstonei Species
- Beania magellanica Species
