Neozoanthus Herberts, 1972,

Low, Martyn E. Y., Sinniger, Frederic & Reimer, James Davis, 2016, The order Zoantharia Rafinesque, 1815 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa: Hexacorallia): supraspecific classification and nomenclature, ZooKeys 641, pp. 1-80: 4

Neozoanthus Herberts, 1972  Edit

Neozoanthus  Edit Herberts, 1972: 137.

Type species.

Neozoanthus tulearensis  Edit Herberts, 1972, by monotypy.

Gender.

Masculine.

Diagnosis.

As for family above.

Remarks.

Molecular phylogenetic results ( Reimer et al. 2011a) indicate that this genus appears to be very closely related to the genus Isaurus  Edit Gray, 1828 (a genus assigned to the family Zoanthidae  Edit ). Three species included in this group are from the Indo-Pacific.