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Latissimia Benayahu, Ekins & McFadden 2022, gen. nov.

Creators

  • 1. School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel. yehudab @ tauex. tau. ac. il; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6999 - 0239
  • 2. Queensland Museum, South Brisbane BC, Queensland 4101, Australia.
  • 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Taxonomy and Systematics Group, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA
  • 4. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Taxonomy and Systematics Group, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA & University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX 1 3 SZ, United Kingdom & Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
  • 5. Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.

Description

Latissimia Benayahu, Ekins & McFadden, gen. nov.

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Diagnosis. Xeniidae with polyps arising directly from a relatively thick spreading membrane which provides the colony with a fleshy texture. Polyps monomorphic and non-retractile. Sclerites present as ellipsoid platelets, some with a waist-like median narrowing, abundant in all parts of the colony. The sclerites reach up to 0.023 mm in diameter, and reveal a dendritic surface microstructure. The live colonies feature a characteristic blue tint due to the sclerite light-refraction properties, commonly providing a blue appearance to the tissue. Zooxanthellate.

Type species: Latissimia opalia Ekins, Benayahu & McFadden, sp. nov. by original designation.

Etymology. The generic name Latissimia (gender: feminine) is derived from the Latin: latissime, which refers to widespread. Here, it denotes the wide distribution of this genus on various eastern and western Australian reefs, while also being an invasive in the western Atlantic Ocean (Brazil).

Notes

Published as part of Benayahu, Yehuda, Ekins, Merrick, Van Ofwegen, Leen P., Samimi-Namin, Kaveh & Mcfadden, Catherine S., 2022, On some encrusting Xeniidae (Octocorallia): Re-examination of the type material of Sansibia flava (May, 1898) and a description of new taxa, pp. 421-444 in Zootaxa 5093 (4) on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5912731

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Additional details

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5912731 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3F557C02C129FFBCFFC3FFA4CB5A4F0A (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/B934CDEE-C8DE-4F4B-89B1-17DD3DDAC893 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/C36C047AC120FFB5FF54FB59C8D649AE (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/192713928 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/20914/taxon/C36C047AC120FFB5FF54FB59C8D649AE.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Benayahu, Ekins & McFadden
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Alcyonacea
Family
Xeniidae
Genus
Latissimia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Latissimia Benayahu, Ekins & Mcfadden, 2022