Acrozoanthus, Saville-Kent, 1893

Reimer, James Davis, Wee, Hin Boo, Jr, Ang Put & Hoeksema, Bert W., 2015, Zoantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) of the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand: a species list based on past reports and new photographic records, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63, pp. 334-356 : 345

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Knob Harbour Moon Wan Wu A Ma Chau Tung Tung Tung 2 approximately – 5 mm) (n=8 6 specimens mm in diameter examined when …, expanded and oral in disks situ (partially adapted from Reimer et al. 2011c).” Original identification It Remarks Symbiodinium appears: to This be clade zooxanthellate distributed D in Taiwan across species the (Reimer is northern in symbiosis et al half., 2011 of with the b). South China Sea based on our results. Identification study this () Palythoa mutuki Zoanthus vietnamensis Zoanthus sansibaricus Zoanthus sansibaricus Zoanthus sansibaricus cf. Palythoa toxica Palythoa heliodiscus ( Fig. 2b 2 ,. see Zoanthus Genus also plate Zoanthus sansibaricus XI , fig Lamarck. 1 in Carlgren plate, 1801 XII, 1900, and figs. 1, 3 in plate XIII in Pax & Müller (1957), fig. 7A in Reimer Specimen or image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Previously & Todd reported (2009), fig locations. 2A in Reimer in the et South al. (2011 China c)) Sea and Gulf of Thailand (n = 7). Poulo Dama (Hon Cu Tron & islands), Vietnam as Zoanthus gnophodes (n = 2); continued study study study study study study study as southeast cavernarum Z. cyanoides point; Rocher of and Ile Noir Z Hon. erythrochloros, Ca Mieu Dau, Nha Bay Trang, Nha (n = Trang, 1 Vietnam each, Vietnam); all as Z in. ... 1 Pax & Müller (1957); Raffles Lighthouse, Singapore; Kusu Table Study This This This This This This This & Island Todd, Singapore (2009); Wanli; Lazarus Tung Island, Kenting, Singapore, Taiwan; all; in in Reimer Reimer et al. (2013) ( Table 1).

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Fig. 2. Species of the family Zoanthidae in the South China Sea. A, Acrozoanthus australiae at Runway, south Layang-Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, Malaysia; B, Zoanthus sansibaricus at Redang Kalong House Reef, east Pulau Redang, Terengganu, Malaysia; C, Z. sansibaricus at Batu Berlabuh, southeast Pulau Tioman, Pahang, Malaysia; D, Z. vietnamensis at Hoi Ha Wan, Hong Kong (photograph by Leung Yu Hin); E, Z. kuroshio at Mango Bay, Koh Tao, Thailand; and F, Z. gigantus at Pak Lap Tsui, Hong Kong (photograph by Tsang Ho Leung). Detailed image information given in Table 1.