Klyxum Alderslade, 2000

Benayahu, Yehuda & Van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2012, Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from Reunion, with a description of two new species of the genus Sinularia May, 1898 and notes on the occurrence of other species, Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 673-699 : 690

Genus Klyxum Alderslade, 2000

Klyxum adii Benayahu & Perkol-Finkel, 2010 ( Fig. 12D )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — ZMTAU Co 34488 (4 colonies), Saint-Leu, Récif Pointe au Sel (Cimetière) (21°11’26.29”S, 55°16’59.27”E), reef slope, 16-20 m, 11.IV.2008.

Klyxum flaccidum Tixier-Durivault, 1966 ( Fig. 12E )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — ZMTAU Co 34472, Saint-Leu, Pointe des Châteaux (21°09’04.39”S, 55°16’12.47”E), reef slope, 14-20 m, 10.IV.2008. — ZMTAU Co 34489, Co 34501, Saint-Leu, Récif Pointe au Sel (Cimetière) (21°11’26.29”S, 55°16’59.27”E), reef slope, 16-20 m, 11.IV.2008. — ZMTAU Co 34410, Saint-Paul, l’Ermitage face au ponton au kiosque (21°04’10.33”S, 55°12’58.46”E), reef slope, 14-19 m, 7.IV.2008.

Figures

FIG. 12. — Live colonies of: A, Cladiella australis (Macfadyen, 1936); B, Cladiella kashmani Benayahu & Schleyer, 1996; C, Cladiella krempfi (Hickson, 1919); D, Klyxum adii Benayahu & Perkol-Finkel, 2010; E, Klyxum flaccidum Tixier-Durivault, 1966; F, Lobophytum crassum Von Marenzeller, 1886.