Three New Species of the Sun Coral Genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong, China

Sam King Fung Yiu; Jianwen Qiu

doi:10.6620/ZS.2022.61-45

Three New Species of the Sun Coral Genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong, China

Sam King Fung Yiu
, Jianwen Qiu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Biology

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Tubastraea is a genus of azooxanthellate scleractinian corals belonging to the family Dendrophylliidae, which are commonly called sun corals. This genus currently has only seven recognized species. In this paper, we report three new species of Tubastraea, including T. dendroida sp. nov., which has a tree-like colony, T. violacea sp. nov., which has violet polyps, and T. chloromura sp. nov., which has olive green polyps. These species are distinct in their septal structures, as well as their rDNA sequences including the entire ITS1, 5.8S and ITS2, and a segment of the 18S and 28S genes.

Original language	English
Article number	45
Number of pages	12
Journal	Zoological Studies
Volume	61
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2022.61-45
Publication status	Published - 12 Sept 2022

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Ahermatypic coral
Azooxanthellate
Dendrophylliid
Scleractinian coral
South China Sea

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