Nanozoanthus, Fujii & Reimer, 2013

Fujii, Takuma & Reimer, James Davis, 2013, A new family of diminutive zooxanthellate zoanthids (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (3), pp. 509-522 : 512

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12075

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20F3052C-5284-4B6B-BD71-87DE7C2DEB91

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4890477

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4EA54C14-AC5D-4AAD-A5DB-71A93DABBE39

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:4EA54C14-AC5D-4AAD-A5DB-71A93DABBE39

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Nanozoanthus
status

gen. nov.

NANOZOANTHUS View in CoL GEN. NOV.

Type species

Nanozoanthus harenaceus sp. nov.

Etymology

Named from the latin ‘nano’, meaning ‘dwarf ’, as polyp size in specimens of this group are generally too small to clearly observe in situ with the naked eye, with ending as in other zoanthid genera. Gender is masculine.

Diagnosis

Only one genus of family Nanozoanthidae , as for family above.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Zoantharia

Family

Nanozoanthidae

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