Parajasonisis Xu, Watling & Xu, 2024

Xu, Yu, Lu, Bo, Watling, Les, Zhan, Zifeng, Wang, Chunsheng & Xu, Kuidong, 2024, Studies on western Pacific gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Part 3: towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Keratoisididae) with descriptions of three new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 5555 (2), pp. 151-181 : 164

Parajasonisis Xu, Watling & Xu , gen. nov.

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Diagnosis. Colony planar and flabellate covered with a thick tegument. Branches emerging from the short nodes, usually pseudo-dichotomously divided tending to form sections with a lyrate pattern, occasionally trichotomous. Polyps tall and cylindrical, well spaced and biserially arranged. Elongated scales to flat rods in tentacle rachis becoming smaller in pinnules with irregular outline. Flat rods/needles longitudinally or obliquely arranged in the upper part of polyp body wall, and flat rods/needles and elongate thick scales usually transversely arranged in the basal part. Sclerites in coenenchyme similar to the basal polyp body wall. Large rods/needles sometimes projecting beyond the tentacles. Small rodlets in the pharynx with blunt or conical lateral projections.

Type species. Parajasonisis flabellata Xu, Watling & Xu , sp. nov.

Etymology: Composition of the Greek prefix para (similar to) and the generic name Jasonisis , referring to the similarity of the new genus with Jasonisis .

Remarks. See below.