Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from South Africa.
| Autor: | Filander ZN; Biodiversity and Coastal Research, Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environment, Forestry, and Fisheries, Cape Town, South Africa.; Zoology Department, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa., Kitahara MV; Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ciências do Mar, Santos, Brazil.; Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo, São Sebastião, Brazil., Cairns SD; Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA., Sink KJ; South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.; Zoology Department, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa., Lombard AT; Zoology Department, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | ZooKeys [Zookeys] 2021 Oct 28; Vol. 1066, pp. 1-198. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 28 (Print Publication: 2021). |
| DOI: | 10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697 |
| Abstrakt: | Globally, South Africa ranks in the top five countries regarding marine species richness per unit area. Given the high diversity, it is not surprising that many invertebrate taxa in the region are poorly characterised. The South African azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Anthozoa) is one such taxonomic group, and was last reviewed by Boshoff in 1980. Although more recent regional publications have reported on some species, there has not been a faunistic review that accounts for the country's species diversity since then. Moreover, numerous unidentified specimens representing more than three decades of sampling effort have accumulated. In this study the authors update the state of knowledge of South African azooxanthellate coral species. Specimens, particularly those within the extensive collections of the Iziko South African and Smithsonian museums, were morphologically examined and identified. Other data considered included historic data represented as imagery data, associated species data from recent research surveys, and the scientific literature. To date, the study has increased the total number of known species from 77 to 108 across eleven families, 28 new South African records, and three are new species with one new genus. (Zoleka N. Filander, Marcelo V. Kitahara, Stephen D. Cairns, Kerry J. Sink, Amanda T. Lombard.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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