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- Title
A new family of diminutive zooxanthellate zoanthids ( Hexacorallia: Zoantharia).
- Authors
Fujii, Takuma; Reimer, James Davis
- Abstract
A new family, genus, and species of zooxanthellate macrocnemic zoanthid is described from Okinawa, Japan. The diminutive zoanthid N anozoanthus harenaceus sp. nov. occurs in sandy 'pools' upon hard substrates in coral reefs. The results of molecular phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial 16 S ribosomal DNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I suggests that Nanozoanthidae fam. nov. is genetically close to family Microzoanthidae and Isozoanthus sulcatus at the intrafamily-suborder level. The Nanozoanthidae fam. nov.- Microzoanthidae clade is clearly highly divergent from all other known zoanthid families and from the order Actiniaria at the suborder level or higher. These results demonstrate that much high-level (e.g. above genus) diversity remains to be described within the order Zoantharia, and until such work is complete it will be difficult to completely understand their biodiversity. © 2013 The Linnean Society of London
- Subjects
ZOANTHARIA; SPECIES; ZOOXANTHELLATE corals; MOLECULAR genetics; MITOCHONDRIAL physiology; RIBOSOMAL DNA; CYTOCHROME oxidase
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2013, Vol 169, Issue 3, p509
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zoj.12075