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Vol. 51 No. 3, 2012
Two New Species and a New Record of the Genus Sinularia (Octocorallia:
Alcyonacea) from the Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan
Leendert
Pieter van Ofwegen1,* and Yehuda Benayahu2
1Netherlands
Center for Biodiversity Naturalis, PO Box 9517, Leiden 2300 RA, the
Netherlands
2Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life
Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
E-mail:yehudaB@tauex.tau.ac.il
Leendert Pieter van Ofwegen and Yehuda Benayahu (2012) Two new species of the genus Sinularia (family Alcyoniidae),
featuring leptoclados-type clubs, are described and depicted from the
Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan: S.
penghuensis sp. nov. and S.
wanannensis sp. nov. Sinularia
slieringsi Ofwegen & Vennam, 1994, a new zoogeographical
record for Taiwan which features clubs of the same type, is described
and discussed.
Key words: Octocorallia, Sinularia, New species, Coral
reefs, Taiwan.
*Correspondence: Tel: 3171-568-7653. Fax: 3171-568-7666.
E-mail:leen.vanofwegen@ncbnaturalis.nl
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