A new species of the sun coral genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong

被引：7

作者：

Yiu, Sam King Fung ^{[1
,2
]}

Chung, Sheena Suet-Wah ^{[1
,2
]}

Qiu, Jian-Wen ^{[1
,2
,3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Dept Biol, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

[2] Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Hong Kong Branch, Southern Marine Sci & Engn Guangdong Lab Guangzho, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

[3] Southern Marine Sci & Engn Guangdong Lab Guangzho, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

[4] HKBU Inst Res & Continuing Educ, Virtual Univ Pk, Shenzhen, Peoples R China

来源：

ZOOTAXA | 2021年 / 5047卷 / 01期

关键词：

scleractinian coral; azooxanthellate; ahermatypic coral; dendrophylliid; South China Sea; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; GASTROPODA; ALGORITHM; CNIDARIA;

D O I：

10.11646/zootaxa.5047.1.1

中图分类号：

Q95 [动物学];

学科分类号：

071002 ;

摘要：

Tubastraea, commonly known as sun coral, is a genus of brightly coloured azooxanthellate corals in the family Dendrophylliidae. The diversity of this genus is low, with only seven recognized species. Herein, we describe Tubastraea megacorallita sp. nov. from Hong Kong based on morphological and molecular analyses. This new species exhibits several characteristics of the genus including being colonial, having a rough texture of corallum and no epitheca. It can be distinguished from its congenerics by bigger corallites, and the Pourtales plan arrangement of its septa. The rDNA gene sequences (consisting of ITS1, 5.8S, ITS2, 18S and 28S) showed 2.45-5.18% divergence from those of its closest relatives, T. coccinea and T. micranthus.

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