Four new species of southern African octocorals (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea), with a further diagnostic revision of the genusAlcyoniumLinnaeus, 1758
作者:
GARY C. WILLIAMS,
期刊:
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
(WILEY Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 92,
issue 1
页码: 1-26
ISSN:0024-4082
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1988.tb01524.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: New species;soft corals;alcyonaccan octocorals;Alcyonium;Capnella;southern Africa;taxonomic descriptions;morphology;distribution;diagnostic revision
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Four new species of soft corals are described from the shallow sublittoral of southern Africa. Three of the species are referable to the genusAlcyoniumLinnaeus, 1758 (family Alcyoniidae), although two of these possess growth forms that are atypical for most members of the genus. A revised diagnosis of the genus is therefore included. A new species in the family Nephtheidae is also described, this being referable to the genusCapnellaGray, 1869. All four species are from the region between the Cape of Good Hope Peninsula and the eastern Cape Province of South Africa. This is the region of the Agulhas Bank, an austroafrican biogeographic region that shows a high incidence of endemism with respect to the marine invertebrate fauna.
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