Dataset

Six new species of Umimayanthus (Zoantharia: Parazoanthidae) from Western Australia and eastern Indonesia (2007-2018)

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The zoantharian genus Umimayanthus consists largely of species that live in obligate symbioses with sponges. Sponge specimens in museum collections from Western Australia and eastern Indonesia were inspected for any or new Umimayanthus species. Six new species were discovered and redescribe another species described over a century ago.

Citation: Montenegro, J., Fromont, J., Richards, Z., Kise, H., Gomez, O., Hoeksema, B. W., and Reimer, J. D. (2024). Museum collections as untapped sources of undescribed diversity of sponge-zoantharian associations with the description of six new species of Umimayanthus (Zoantharia: Parazoanthidae) from Western Australia and eastern Indonesia. Contributions to Zoology, 93(5), 466-522. https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10069

Published: February 14, 2025 at 02:54

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=australian_umimayanthus

Contacts:

Javier Montenegro
University of the Ryukyus and Western Australian Museum

52
occurrence records
13
taxa
10
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 2
3.8%
minimumDepthInMeters 2
3.8%
scientificNameID 26
50.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_MATCH 3
5.8%
NO_DEPTH 2
3.8%

Measurement types

DNA derived data