Journal
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 528-538Publisher
ZOOLOGICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.2108/zs190040
Keywords
Endocoelanthae; Anenthemonae; Actinernidae; mesogleal thickening; mesenterial arrangement; fertile mesentery; Goto Islands; Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17J03267, 24-3048, JP17K15198, JP17H01913, JP25440221]
- Establishment of Research and Education Network on Biodiversity and Its Conservation in the Satsunan Islands project of Kagoshima University - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
- National Museum of Nature and Science project research Geological, biological, and anthropological histories in relation to the Kuroshio Current
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Two species of Synactinernus sea anemones were found in Japanese waters. Synactinernus flavus Carlgren, 1918, the only described species of this genus, is rediscovered from off the Goto Islands a century after the original description. Synactinernus flavus was once synonymized with Isactinernus quadrilobatus Carlgren, 1918; however, we show that, based on morphological (including examination of type specimens) and molecular (using nuclear 18S rDNA) evidence, these species are completely different. The other species, Synactinernus churaumi sp. nov., was found off Ishigaki Island and Okinawa Island by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), and had been kept for 15 years in a tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. There are clear differences between these two species; therefore, we describe the second species and revise the diagnosis of Synactinernus.
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