Note "Description: Pallas described Alcyonium papillosum, sp. 204, p. 350: Definition: a crust, covered with large convex nipples.
A crust covered with rocks, greyish-rusty, resembling dried leather, rising into unequal nipples, large, turgid, convex, impressed with a wrinkled, contracted rim, piled up in distinct, hollow columns, made of the same leather. I have only seen a single specimen of this, in the collection of the Most Serene Prince of Arausion (= collection of the Stadhouder Prince of Holland). The Alcyonium surpasses all others in size of papillae.
Locality: unknown.
He refers to L.F. Marsili, 1725 (Histoire physique de la mer. De'Pens, Amsterdam), who described on p. 86 and figured on Pl. 15 fig. 76 a 'Champignon de Mer', collected at Cassidaigne, Mediterranean coast of France, at a depth of 160m, but there is no figure by Pallas himself.
(there are translations of Pallas, (Boddaert, 1768 and Wilkens, 1787), who reproduced Marsili's illustration)." for taxon Alcyonium papillosum Pallas, 1766 has been added by Rob W.M. van Soest via the webinterface on 2024-08-06T10:30:02+00:00
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