Rhytisma Alderslade, 2000

Benayahu, Yehuda & Van Ofwegen, Leen P., 2012, Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from Reunion, with a description of two new species of the genus Sinularia May, 1898 and notes on the occurrence of other species, Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 673-699 : 691-692

Genus Rhytisma Alderslade, 2000

Rhytisma fulvum fulvum (Forskål, 1775) ( Fig. 13F )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — ZMTAU Co 34419, Saint-Paul,

Cap la Houssaye (21°01’02.90”S, 55°14’15.49”E), reef slope, 17 m, 8.IV.2008. — ZMTAU Co 34407 (2 colonies), Saint-Paul, l’Ermitage face au ponton au kiosque (21°04’10.33”S, 55°12’58.46”E), reef slope, 14-19 m, 7.IV.2008. — ZMTAU Co 34454 (2 colonies), Saint-Leu, Pointe des Châteaux (21°09’04.39”S, 55°16’12.47”E), reef slope, 14-20 m, 10.IV.2008.

Figures

FIG. 13. — Live colonies of: A, B, Lobophytum depressum Tixier-Durivault, 1966; A, with extended polyps; B, with retracted polyps; C, D, Lobophytum latilobatum Verseveldt, 1971; C, with extended polyps; D, with retracted polyps; E, Lobophytum pauciflorum (Ehrenberg, 1834); F, Rhytisma fulvum fulvum (Forskål, 1775).