Journal
MARINE BIODIVERSITY
Volume 50, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-020-01085-5
Keywords
New species; Acrosphere; Large basitrich; Neotype; Biological dredge; Misaki; Kamogawa
Funding
- Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant from the Japan Science Society [27-528]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP 17J03267, JP25440221]
- Integrated Research of Biodiversity Hot Spots in Japan by National Museum of Nature and Science
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Specimens of the sea anemoneHalcampella minutaWassilieff,1908, (Actiniaria: Haloclavidae) were collected from several localities in Japan during 2014-2017. Although this species had previously been synonymized withAnemonactis mazeli(Jourdan,1880) due to its smaller size and fewer tentacles, it was under dispute whether this sea anemone was in fact a different species. In this study, the taxon is redescribed from newly collected material and assigned to the genusAnemonactisAndres,1881asAnemonactis minuta(Wassilieff,1908) comb. nov. Its differences from all considered valid species in this genus are discussed. Furthermore, the Atlanto-Mediterranean speciesAnemonactis mazelihas been considered cosmopolitan by some authors. However, the study of additional material suggests that most of the previous records of this species in Japanese waters belong to a new species,Anemonactis tohruisp. nov., proposed herein.
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