10 Result(s)

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Spawn release of a Sclerophytum soft coral species in Okinawa Island, Japan

We report the first documentation of in situ release of reproductive materials by female colonies of a soft coral, in this case Sclerophytum cf. heterospiculatum, from the subtropical island of Okinawa, Japan. Sp...

Emmeline A. Jamodiong, Tracy D. Tabalanza… in Marine Biodiversity (2024)

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Crinoid diversity and their symbiotic communities at Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia)

Members of the order Comatulida (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) are widely distributed on Indo-Pacific reefs, where they host a highly diverse and understudied cryptofauna, which makes them a potential source of hi...

Riccardo Virgili, Carlo Cerrano, Massimo Ponti, Markus T. Lasut… in Marine Biodiversity (2020)

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A species complex within the red-reticulate Goniobranchus Pease, 1866 (Nudibranchia: Doridina: Chromodorididae)

The taxonomy and diversity of chromodorid nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) are relatively well-studied, although molecular analyses have only been applied to test few species-level groups. With...

Giun Yee Soong, Nerida G. Wilson, James D. Reimer in Marine Biodiversity (2020)

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First record of “polyp-ball colonies” produced by Zoanthus sociatus (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Zoantharia)

Ricardo González-Muñoz, José Luis Tello-Musi, James D. Reimer in Marine Biodiversity (2019)

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The distribution of reef-dwelling Waminoa flatworms in bays and on capes of Okinawa Island

Waminoa spp. are acoel worms living on the surface of anthozoans. Despite being potential parasites, there is still not much information available regarding the genus’ distribution or host selectivity. The aim of...

Piera Biondi, Giovanni D. Masucci, Shiori Kunihiro, James D. Reimer in Marine Biodiversity (2019)

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Description of the juvenile form of the sea cucumber Thelenota anax H. L. Clark, 1921

Our knowledge of the ecology and habitat of juveniles of many sea cucumber species is limited, due to their cryptic habitats and differing color and shape from adults. In the present study, a juvenile specimen...

Taha Soliman, James D. Reimer, Iori Kawamura… in Marine Biodiversity (2019)

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First records of zooxanthellate Zoanthus (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) from Korea and Japan (East) Sea

This report presents the first records of the zooxanthellate species Zoanthus sansibaricus (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia: Zoanthidae) from Jeju Island, Korea, in the East China Sea, and from Dogo-jima Islan...

James D. Reimer, Sangil Kim, Shogo Arai, Shashank Keshavmurthy… in Marine Biodiversity (2018)

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Eight polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Indo-Pacific-wide zoanthid, Zoanthus sansibaricus

Next generation sequencing allows rapid development of genetic markers for investigating the ecology and evolution of non-model organisms. In the present study we employed 454 sequencing and high through-put s...

Drew C. Wham, Margaux Carmichael, James D. Reimer… in Marine Biodiversity (2013)

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The Parazoanthidae (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) DNA taxonomy: description of two new genera

The taxonomy of the hexacorallian order Zoantharia is very problematic due to the lack of easily accessible and informative morphological taxonomic characters. This is particularly true in the widespread famil...

Frederic Sinniger, James D. Reimer, Jan Pawlowski in Marine Biodiversity (2010)