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ZOOKEYS
卷 -, 期 84, 页码 1-11出版社
PENSOFT PUBL
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.84.781
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Alcyonacea; South Africa; Kenya; Gulf of Oman; Taiwan; Japan; coral reefs
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资金
- PharmaMar Spain
- National Science Council of Taiwan
- The Israel Cohen Chair in Environmental Zoology
- United States-Israel Binational Science-Foundation (BSF), Jerusalem Israel [2008186]
- NSF [EF-0531570, EF-0531779]
A new genus, Aldersladum (family Alcyoniidae), is established to accommodate a previously described species, Efflatounaria sodwanae Benayahu, 1993 (family Xeniidae) from Sodwana Bay, South Africa that was wrongly assigned to the latter genus. This species is redescribed and a second new species, A. jengi from Penghu Is., Taiwan, is described. The diagnostic features of the new genus include the presence of only figure-eight shaped platelets in all parts of the colony, thus differentiating it from all known genera of the Alcyoniidae. Based on examination of additional material from other localities, the zoogeographical distribution of the genus is confirmed to include the coral reefs of South Africa, Kenya, Gulf of Oman, Taiwan and Japan. Phylogenetic analyses of two mitochondrial genes strongly support its placement in the family Alcyoniidae.
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