taxonID	type	description	language	source
03DA87AC34125E78FE8866E5FBFAFDA1.taxon	materials_examined	Type genus Nanozoanthus gen. nov. Etymology As for the type genus, with ending as in other zoanthid families. Diagnosis Well-developed polyps connected by narrow stolon. Mineral particles encrusted in column from aboral end to the edge of the oral disc. Irregularly sized sand particles encrusted into ectoderm and slightly into mesoglea. Zigzagged, white-coloured pattern following outside edge of oral disc. Macrocnemic mesenterial arrangement. Sphincter muscle mesogleal. No lacunae or ring sinus. Zooxanthellate. Mitochondrial COI and 16 S ribosomal DNA sequences significantly differ from all other known zoanthid genera (Figs 1, 2). Remarks Only a few other macrocnemic zoanthids symbiotic with zooxanthellae are known, primarily from the genera Parazoanthus and Isozoanthus. It is easy to distinguish this family from these two genera by the position of sphincter muscle and by the phylogenetically highly divergent COI and mt 16 S rDNA sequences.	en	Fujii, Takuma, Reimer, James Davis (2013): A new family of diminutive zooxanthellate zoanthids (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (3): 509-522, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12075, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12075
03DA87AC34125E78FC7661EFFC2FFB9E.taxon	materials_examined	Type species Nanozoanthus harenaceus sp. nov. Etymology Named from the latin ‘ nano’, meaning ‘ dwarf ’, as polyp size in specimens of this group are generally too small to clearly observe in situ with the naked eye, with ending as in other zoanthid genera. Gender is masculine. Diagnosis Only one genus of family Nanozoanthidae, as for family above.	en	Fujii, Takuma, Reimer, James Davis (2013): A new family of diminutive zooxanthellate zoanthids (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (3): 509-522, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12075, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12075
03DA87AC341C5E76FF1F63AEFA58FF12.taxon	description	Swain TD. 2009. Phylogeny-based species delimitations and the evolution of host associations in symbiotic zoanthids (Anthozoa, Zoanthidea) of the wider Caribbean region. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 156: 223 – 238. Swain TD. 2010. Evolutionary transitions in symbioses: dramatic reductions in bathymetric and geographic ranges of Zoanthidea coincide with loss of symbioses with invertebrates. Molecular Ecology 19: 2587 – 2598. Tamura K, Dudley J, Nei M, Kumar S. 2007. MEGA 4:	en	Fujii, Takuma, Reimer, James Davis (2013): A new family of diminutive zooxanthellate zoanthids (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (3): 509-522, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12075, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12075
