Hard soft coral: New genus and species of 'living fossil' octocoral related to blue coral

Friday, July 3, 2015 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

A new species and genus of octocoral (Cnidaria Anthozoa) was described from Zamami Island Okinawa Japan, Nanipora kamurai. Molecular phylogenetic analyses showed that the species is closely related to genus Heliopora, and can be considered a 'living fossil.'

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