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The species name "arctium, does not refer, as one might quickly conclude, to an occurrence of the coral in icy cold waters of the Arctic or perhaps even Antarctica, the species name was chosen because it has external similarity of the colony shape with the leaves of the plants of the genus Arctium (burdock).
Living colonies are brown with colorless polyps, they are cup-shaped with lobed margins; some lobes are united into ridges located radially on the outer part of the disk.
Some finger-like or lumpy lobes (up to 12 mm high) may occur in the central part of the disc.
Polyps cover the disc and lobes; they are also distributed on the underside of the disc, but only near the margin, as a 4 - 6 mm wide margin.
The holotype was funnel-shaped and 9.96 cm high.
The underside of the disc and the surface of the peduncle are slightly grooved longitudinally.
The soft coral was first named as Sinularia arctium in 2009 and later assigned to the genus Sclerophytum.
Synonym: Sinularia arctium Dautova & Savinkin, 2009
Living colonies are brown with colorless polyps, they are cup-shaped with lobed margins; some lobes are united into ridges located radially on the outer part of the disk.
Some finger-like or lumpy lobes (up to 12 mm high) may occur in the central part of the disc.
Polyps cover the disc and lobes; they are also distributed on the underside of the disc, but only near the margin, as a 4 - 6 mm wide margin.
The holotype was funnel-shaped and 9.96 cm high.
The underside of the disc and the surface of the peduncle are slightly grooved longitudinally.
The soft coral was first named as Sinularia arctium in 2009 and later assigned to the genus Sclerophytum.
Synonym: Sinularia arctium Dautova & Savinkin, 2009
