Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from Southern Taiwan. I. Sarcophyton nanwanensis sp. nov. (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea)

Yehuda Benayahu; Shimrit Perkol-Finkel

Soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from Southern Taiwan. I. Sarcophyton nanwanensis sp. nov. (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea)

Yehuda Benayahu^*, Shimrit Perkol-Finkel

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Zoology

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

A new species of Sarcophyton from southern Taiwan and Okinawa, Japan is described: S. nanwanensis. It has unique sclerites, almost oval without a distinct head, on the surface of the polyparium and stalk. A species with sclerites similar to those of S. nanwanensis is discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	537-547
Number of pages	11
Journal	Zoological Studies
Volume	43
Issue number	3
State	Published - Jul 2004

Keywords

Coral reefs
New species
Octocorallia
Taiwan
Taxonomy

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