Overview of the order Zoantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) in Brazil

Zooxanthellate zoantharians (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia: Brachycnemina) in the northern Red Sea

“…The COI tree showed results similar to those of the 16S-rDNA tree, with specimen 243 identical to previously reported Z. sansibaricus from the Persian Gulf (shorter fragment sequences also identical to Z. sansibaricus: 228, 238, 271); these sequences formed one clade. Within Palythoa, many specimens identified morphologically as P. tuberculosa (40,80,81,97,116,147,167,169,174,186,198,200,201,202,205,206,207,208,210,213) were identical to previously reported sequences of P. tuberculosa, P. sp. "sakurajimensis", and P. mutuki "1", forming a polytomy, with two P. tuberculosa specimens slightly derived from these sequences in a subclade (177, 187) (ML=67%, NJ=67%).…”

“…For Palythoa, specimen 165 was identical to sequences of P. mutuki '2' from Japan (DQ997841), as well as numerous sequences from South Africa of P. nelliae, and P. mutuki sequences from the Persian Gulf. Numerous Red Sea specimens morphologically identified as either P. tuberculosa (23, 80,147,167,169,178,179,200,201,210,213) or P. mutuki-related (158, 181, 182, 241, 259) were all identical with previously reported sequences of P. tuberculosa from numerous locations, as well as with P. sp. "sakurajimensis" from Japan (DQ997842), P. nelliae from South Africa, P. mutuki '1' from Japan (DQ997875), and P. aff.…”

Editorial: biodiversity of Caribbean coral reefs (with a focus on the Dutch Caribbean)

“…Rocha et al 2008;Nunes et al 2011), with reef corals found to 27°S latitude (Capel et al 2012) and reef fishes to 28°S (Floeter et al 2001), it would also be interesting to include more papers on coral reefs from Brazil in order to facilitate comparisons between the biota of both areas and to study their connectivity Table 1 Representation of Caribbean marine ecoregions by numbers of articles dealing with corals or reefs published in the journal Marine Biodiversity and its predecessor Senckenbergiana Maritima (1969-2016 + 2017 present issue = total). Some articles cover more than one ecoregion Eastern Caribbean (3 + 9 = 12): Kleemann (1986Kleemann ( , 1990 (2017) Mollusca (4): Kleemann (1986Kleemann ( , 1990, Guerrero-Kommritz and Camelo-Guarin (2016), Potkamp et al (2017) Polychaetes ( (2011) Gastrotricha (1): Hochberg et al (2014) (see, for example, Dias and Gondim 2016;Mizrahi et al 2016;Pinto et al 2016;Santos et al 2016;Soares et al 2016a, b …”

Sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, Ceriantharia, Zoanthidea) from marine shallow-water environments in Venezuela: new records and an updated inventory

“…Distribution Widespread distribution throughout the Atlantic, from Bermuda to Brazil, along the entire Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and along the west coast of Africa (Acosta et al 2005;Alves-Santos et al 2015;Fautin 2013;Reimer et al 2010;Varela et al 2002). This species has been previously registered in Venezuela (Agudo 1987;Bastidas & Bone 1996) (Table 1), inhabiting coral reefs, seagrass meadows, mangroves, and rocky shores.…”

“…Distribution Western Atlantic, from Jamaica to Brazil (Acosta et al 2005;Alves-Santos et al 2015;Fautin & Daly 2009;Reimer et al 2012;Varela et al 2002). Agudo (1987) previously documented Z. pulchellus in Venezuela (Table 1), inhabiting coral reefs, seagrass meadows, mangroves, and rocky shores.…”