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Genus
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Colonies relatively small, generally not more than about
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species
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of
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(see below) were included in a DNA sequencing study using mitochondrial
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Chery
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; digital poster presentation available upon request to MRB) and the results showed that both species grouped within the family
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(see below) comprised of species previously assigned to the genus
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,
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and represented by
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71434AD4D62547FDC2" box="[611,838,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Aphanostichopathes</emphasis>
cf.
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,
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</taxonomicName>
, in
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(Note:
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7141BED70A277BFDE6" box="[151,378,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Aphanostichopathes</emphasis>
cf.
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was originally presented in Chery
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71429FD70A25EAFDE6" box="[950,1003,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">et al</emphasis>
. as
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714536D70A2322FDE6" box="[1055,1315,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Stichopathes dissimilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; however, examination of the SEMs of the spines of the type specimen of
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71424BD76E2571FDBA" box="[866,880,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">S</emphasis>
.
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indicate that it may not be conspecific with Roules species). Based on K2P genetic distance estimates for
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-IGR-
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, the two species of
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714424D742239DFD5E" box="[1293,1436,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Anozopathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are genetically much closer to the
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71433DD7A624F6FD72" box="[532,759,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Aphanostichopathes</emphasis>
cf.
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</taxonomicName>
(with genetic distances of
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) than to the
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/
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</emphasis>
clade (genetic distances
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) in
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. Both
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71459DD79A2342FD16" box="[1204,1347,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Anozopathes</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
are genetically identical using the
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71433FD7FE244CFD2A" box="[534,589,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">nad5</emphasis>
-IGR-
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7143B8D7FE24C8FD2A" box="[657,713,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">nad1</emphasis>
region; however, this gene region does not have the same power to resolve species as the
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714098D7D227E7FCCE" box="[433,486,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">cox3</emphasis>
-IGR-
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714300D7D2245FFCCE" box="[553,606,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">cox1</emphasis>
region (which was not successfully sequenced). Note: the species identified as
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7141C3D6362778FCE2" box="[234,377,799,825]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Stichopathes</emphasis>
cf.
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</taxonomicName>
in
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has faint morphological features indicating that it might also belong in the family
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; however, the fact that it groups with a morphologically unrelated aphanipathid genus,
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7141BED64E273CFC5A" box="[151,317,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Acanthopathes</emphasis>
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, requires further study.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7141BED1542715FB4E" bold="true" box="[151,276,1149,1173]" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
A maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic tree of the family
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based on mitochondrial
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-
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sequence data (
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Chery
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714099D18B27DDFB61" box="[432,476,1186,1210]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">et al</emphasis>
. 2018
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). The original tree consisted of 112 taxa and 682 sites and was rooted internally with the
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. PhyML used the GTR+G model of sequence evolution and 1,000 bootstrap replicates.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8B8E36CBEB788F7141EED0252583F99D" blockId="2.[151,1437,1292,2038]" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">
Several previously described genera were also based on species forming sparsely branched colonies.
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created the genus
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714092D0192440FA91" box="[443,577,1328,1354]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Pteropathes</emphasis>
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for a branched species (
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714277D018256EFA91" box="[862,879,1329,1354]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">P</emphasis>
.
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</taxonomicName>
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NHMUK 90.4.9.9) with long straight branches, many of which have a very narrow distal branch angle. In addition, some of the branches (up to five in a row) are arranged uniserially. Based on Brooks illustration, the polypar spines are estimated to be up to
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tall and appear to be smooth, without tubercles. The polyps are arranged in a single row, and are
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in transverse diameter (45 per cm with very little coenenchyme between adjacent ones). The uniserial branching and the narrow distal branch angles suggest that
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might be related to species of
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714576D0CD22D6FA25" box="[1119,1239,1508,1534]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Antipathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7145D2D0CD2394FA25" box="[1275,1429,1508,1534]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Aphanipathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The very large spines are more typical of some species of
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714203D32125C5F9F9" box="[810,964,1544,1570]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Aphanipathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The spines need to be re-examined more closely with an SEM to determine if there is evidence of tubercles.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8E36CBEB788F7141EED379246DF82D" blockId="2.[151,1437,1292,2038]" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">
<bibRefCitation id="EFA04B3AEB788F7141EED379278EF9B1" author="Van Pesch, A. J." box="[199,399,1616,1642]" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" pagination="1 - 258" refId="ref8844" refString="Van Pesch, A. J. (1914) The Antipatharia of the Siboga Expedition. Siboga Expeditie Monographie, 17, 1 - 258. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / t. 173163" type="journal article" year="1914">Van Pesch (1914)</bibRefCitation>
created the genus
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71434AD37924E7F9B1" box="[611,742,1616,1642]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Hillopathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
for a species (
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7142A4D3782204F9B1" box="[909,1029,1617,1642]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">H. ramosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) with very sparse branching that he had first thought was a species of
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F71433FD35D2578F955" authority="(van Pesch, 1910)" baseAuthorityName="van Pesch" baseAuthorityYear="1910" box="[534,889,1652,1678]" class="Anthozoa" family="Antipathidae" genus="Cirrhipathes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F71433FD35D24A4F955" box="[534,677,1652,1678]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Cirrhipathes</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFA04B3AEB788F71439DD35D2570F955" author="Van Pesch, A. J." box="[692,881,1652,1678]" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" refId="ref8814" refString="Van Pesch, A. J. (1910) Bijdragen tot der Kennis van het Genus Cirripathes. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 96 pp." type="book" year="1910">van Pesch, 1910</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. As in
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7142EFD35D2254F955" box="[966,1109,1652,1678]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Cirrhipathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the polyps in
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F7145D5D35C2372F955" baseAuthorityName="van Pesch" baseAuthorityYear="1910" box="[1276,1395,1653,1678]" class="Anthozoa" family="Antipathidae" genus="Hillopathes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="ramosa">
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7145D5D35C2372F955" box="[1276,1395,1653,1678]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">H. ramosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are not arranged uniserially, but are crowded together on one side of the axis giving the appearance that they are in multiple rows.
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considered the presence of branches to be a generic level character. The spines in
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F7144A8D39426EAF921" baseAuthorityName="van Pesch" baseAuthorityYear="1910" class="Anthozoa" family="Antipathidae" genus="Hillopathes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="ramosa">
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7144A8D39426EAF921" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">H. ramosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were reported to be up to
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in height, and van Pesch thought that this might suggest a relationship to
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F7141BED22D2730F8C5" authorityName="Brook" authorityYear="1889" box="[151,305,1796,1822]" class="Anthozoa" family="Aphanipathidae" genus="Aphanipathes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7141BED22D2730F8C5" box="[151,305,1796,1822]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Aphanipathes</emphasis>
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; however, the spines were described by
<bibRefCitation id="EFA04B3AEB788F7143D1D22D25BAF8C5" author="Van Pesch, A. J." box="[760,955,1796,1822]" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" pagination="1 - 258" refId="ref8844" refString="Van Pesch, A. J. (1914) The Antipatharia of the Siboga Expedition. Siboga Expeditie Monographie, 17, 1 - 258. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / t. 173163" type="journal article" year="1914">van Pesch (1914)</bibRefCitation>
as being smooth. The absence of tubercles on the spines does not preclude the genus from being related to the family
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F7142F9D2012284F899" authorityName="Opresko" authorityYear="2004" box="[976,1157,1832,1858]" class="Anthozoa" family="Aphanipathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="family">Aphanipathidae</taxonomicName>
; however, the non-uniserial arrangement of the polyps would support the conclusion that
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F714259D26525F2F8BD" authorityName="van Pesch" authorityYear="1914" box="[880,1011,1868,1894]" class="Anthozoa" family="Antipathidae" genus="Hillopathes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714259D26525F2F8BD" box="[880,1011,1868,1894]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Hillopathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is not related to
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714584D2652345F8BD" box="[1197,1348,1868,1894]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F714584D2652341F8BD" authorityName="Opresko &amp; Bo &amp; Stein &amp; Evankow &amp; Distel &amp; Brugler" authorityYear="2021" box="[1197,1344,1868,1894]" class="Anthozoa" family="Aphanipathidae" genus="Anozopathes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">Anozopathes</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Also, it is quite possible that the specimens of
<taxonomicName id="4C314D48EB788F714317D25924C0F851" authorityName="van Pesch" authorityYear="1914" box="[574,705,1904,1930]" class="Anthozoa" family="Antipathidae" genus="Hillopathes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Antipatharia" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714317D25924C0F851" box="[574,705,1904,1930]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Hillopathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
that van Pesch described were actually specimens of
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<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F714427D259239CF851" box="[1294,1437,1904,1930]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">Cirrhipathes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
that had been broken off at the growing tip and then underwent regeneration producing several separate growing tips. Breakage of the apical portions of black coral whips by strong currents is known to be a common occurrence on the reefs of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EFA04B3AEB788F714092D2F52461F82D" author="Bo, M. &amp; Di Camillo, C. G. &amp; Addamo, A. M. &amp; Valisano, L. &amp; Bavestrello, G." box="[443,608,2012,2038]" pageId="2" pageNumber="163" pagination="1 - 6" refId="ref7204" refString="Bo, M., Di Camillo, C. G., Addamo, A. M., Valisano, L. &amp; Bavestrello, G. (2009) Growth strategies of whip black corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) in the Bunaken Marine Park (Celebes Sea, Indonesia). Marine Biodiversity Records, 2 (e 54), 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267209000712" type="journal article" year="2009">
Bo
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB788F7140CDD2F42414F82D" box="[484,533,2012,2038]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="163">et al</emphasis>
. 2009
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C32B6540EB798F7041EED5BE27D0FF0E" pageId="3" pageNumber="164" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8B8E36CBEB798F7041EED5BE27D0FF0E" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,213]" pageId="3" pageNumber="164">
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB798F7041EED5BE274EFF6A" bold="true" box="[199,335,151,177]" pageId="3" pageNumber="164">Etymology.</emphasis>
The genus name is derived from the Greek
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB798F70426DD5BE25B0FF6A" box="[836,945,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="164">“anozos”</emphasis>
meaning few or no branches, and the commonly used suffix “
<emphasis id="B945EAD9EB798F70405DD59227BCFF0E" box="[372,445,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="164">pathes</emphasis>
”.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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