{"id":15269,"date":"2015-04-06T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T01:43:04","slug":"another-undescribed-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15269","title":{"rendered":"Another Undescribed Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are quite a few well known, but undescribed species found island reefs.  I have noted <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?s=undescribed\">a few of them previously<\/a> here on DarkerView.<\/p>\n<p>Undescribed means simply that&#8230; The species has never been properly described in a scientific publication such that a species name is assigned.  These do exist, and are more common than many people realize.  Some marine biologist with expertise with related species needs to spend some time to capture a few, and do a proper description, an exercise that takes more effort than you might think.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into another one recently.  This anemone was quite common on the sandy slopes below the reef at Garden Eel Cove.  There was a individual every three or four feet amoung the garden eels at 80ft depth.  They are apparently an undescribed species of the genus Mesacmaea.  More information can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiisfishes.com\/inverts\/cnidarians\/neatcnidarians.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hoover&#8217;s update pages<\/a>.  This one should really be added to the next edition.<\/p>\n<p>They were quite challenging to photograph.  Quite small, less than an inch across, and quick to disappear into the sand when approached too closely.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15270\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=15270\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15270\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CH26-37-15081-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Mesacmaea sp?\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15270\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undescribed member of the genus Mesacmaea, 80ft depth at Garden Eel Cove.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are quite a few well known, but undescribed species found island reefs. I have noted a few of them previously here on DarkerView. Undescribed means simply that&#8230; The species has never been properly described in a scientific publication such that a species name is assigned. These do exist, and are more common than many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Undescribed Species&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,23],"tags":[1996,98,995,37,1393],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15272,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions\/15272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}