A New Species of Coralliidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) Collected from Eastern Japan
Joint press release by Okinawa Churashima Foundation and Hokkaido University (in Japanese)
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A new species of Hemicorallium Gray, 1867 (Coralliidae), Hemicorallium meraboshi sp. nov., is described here. The specimen was found at a depth of 1744–1755 m, approximately 340 km east of the Honshu (mainland Japan) coast. The colony was identified by visual and microscopic observation of standard morphological characteristics (colony size, diameters of colony base and branches, diameter and height of autozooid mound, thickness of coenenchyme, sclerite sizes, etc.) along with support from molecular evidence. The unique features of this specimen are……
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A New Species of Coralliidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) Collected from Eastern Japan
Masanori Nonaka , Nozomi Hanahara, Keiichi Kakui, Species Diversity, 2023 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 231-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.28.231
