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SUBMITTER: van Ofwegen LP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3677396 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Ofwegen Leen P LP Benayahu Yehuda Y McFadden Catherine S CS
ZooKeys 20130225 272
Sinularia leptoclados (Ehrenberg, 1834) is re-described. Sinularia leptoclados var. gonatodes Kolonko, 1926 is synonymized with Sinularia maxima Verseveldt, 1977. Two new species of Sinularia with digitiform lobules, leptoclados-type surface clubs and unbranched interior spindles, are described. An updated maximum likelihood tree of Sinularia species with leptoclados-type clubs (clade 5C) based on two mitochondrial genes (mtMutS, COI) and a nuclear gene (28S rDNA) is presented. ...[more]