Janaria mirabilis Stechow, 1921

Stechow (1921), Verh. Deutsch. Zool. Ges. 26, p. 29.

ZSM 20051734 (housed in crustacean collection of the ZSM) two colonies (“specimens”) on the hermit crabs Eupagurus oarians Benedict in ethanol (fig. 3A), ZSM 20000705-20000721 micro slides with preparations of one spine, ZSM 20000705-20000708 histological cross section series of decalcified spine, ZSM 20000709-20000721 polyps and skeletal parts treated differently, Gulf of California, 22°52'00"N, 109°55' 00"W, depth: 56.7 m, U.S. Fish Commission steamer “Albatross”, station 2829.

Notes: The original description is a short diagnosis only. It refers to a figure in the book “Tierbau und Tierleben” (Doflein 1914, p. 350, fig. 302C) (Fig. 6A bottom), which enabled to identify the sample the description is based on. Stechow (1962, p. 424-427, figs.4-7) provides a very detailed redescription based on the type material. According to this, the two “specimens” have different localities near to each other. One is from a depth of 7m only. Accordingly the details of the locality on the type specimen sample appear to belong to one of the two “specimens” only.