@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref27167, author = {Yehuda Benayahu and Catherine S McFadden and Erez Shoham}, title = {Search for mesophotic octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) and their phylogeny: I. A new sclerite-free genus from Eilat, northern Red Sea}, year = {2017}, keywords = {Octocorallia, new genus, taxonomy, mesophotic coral ecosystem, Eilat, Red Sea}, doi = {}, url = {http://}, pmid = {}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {}, abstract = {This communication describes a new octocoral, Altumia delicata gen. n. and sp. n., (Octocorallia: Clavulariidae) from mesophotic reefs of Eilat (northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea). This species lives on dead antipatharian colonies and on artificial substrates deeper than 60 m down to 140 m and is thus considered to be a lower mesophotic octocoral. It has no sclerites and features no symbiotic zooxanthellae. The new genus is compared to other known sclerite-free octocorals. Molecular phylogenetic analyses place it in a clade with members of families Clavulariidae and Acanthoaxiidae, and for now we assign it to the former based on colony morphology The polyphyletic family Clavulariidae is, however, in need of a thorough revision once the morphological distinctions among its phylogenetically distinct clades are better understood.} }

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