Different zooxanthellae types in populations of the zoanthid Zoanthus sansibaricus along depth gradients in Okinawa, Japan

Shallow-water zoantharians (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia) from the Central Indo-Pacific

“…This species has previously been reported from Zanzibar (type locality), Singapore (Reimer and Todd 2009), Taiwan (Reimer et al 2011c, 2013a), Palau (Reimer et al 2014a), southern Japan (Reimer et al 2004, 2006a, Kamezaki et al 2013), and is considered to have a very wide Indo-Pacific distribution.…”

“…One possible reason for the lack of records from the CIP is that this species is most commonly found in the intertidal zone, which is under-sampled during SCUBA surveys. However, this species is also found to depths of 52 m (Kamezaki et al 2013), although below the shallow littoral zone it rarely forms colonies >100 polyps.…”

Photobiology of the zoanthid Zoanthus sociatus in intertidal and subtidal habitats

“…Moreover, recent findings suggest that Symbiodinium subcladal diversity shows functional differences (Leal et al 2015b;Suggett et al 2015), thus highlighting the cryptic diversity within this genus. It is, therefore, possible that Symbiodinium functional diversity present in Z. sociatus may support the resilience of zoanthids to environmental fluctuations throughout seasons (Reimer et al 2007) and intertidal habitats (Kamezaki et al 2013). …”

Editorial: corals, reefs and marine biodiversity

“…In line with Table 1 Taxa ranked according to frequency of their representation in articles dealing with corals or reefs in the journal Marine Biodiversity and its predecessor Senckenbergiana maritima (1969-present) Cnidaria, Coelentera (28): Grasshoff (1979Grasshoff ( , 1985Grasshoff ( , 1989, Grasshoff and Zibrowius (1983), Türkay and Schuhmacher (1985), Kleemann (1986Kleemann ( , 1990, Lawniczak (1987), Dullo and Hecht (1990), Heiss et al (1993), Fabricius (1996), Heiss et al (1999), Camillo et al (2011), García-Matucheski and Muniain (2011, Aharonovich and Benayahu (2012), Carranza et al (2012), Grossowicz and Benayahu (2012), Hoeksema (2012), Hoeksema and Waheed (2012), van der Meij and Reijnen (2012), Davies et al (2013), Kamezaki et al (2013), , Santodomingo et al (2013), van der Meij and Hoeksema (2013), Waheed and Hoeksema (2013), Yeemin et al (2013) Mollusca (7): Kleemann (1986Kleemann ( , 1990, García-Matucheski and Muniain (2011), Harrison and Smith (2012), Hui et al (2012), van der Meij and Reijnen (2012), Chavanich et al (2013) Crustacea (6): Türkay and Schuhmacher (1985), Senn and Glasstetter (1989), Burukovsky (2000), White (2012White ( , 2013, van der Meij and Hoeksema (2013) Chordata, Vertebrata, Pisces (4): Fishelson (1989)…”

“…High occupancy rates were almost equally distributed over the sheltered and exposed sites, whereas sites without gall crabs were wave-exposed and predominantly under the influence of disturbances, such as blast fishing or relatively high nutrient loads. Kamezaki et al (2013) studied the relationship between Symbiodinium and zooxanthellate zoanthid colonies along the west coast of Okinawa, Japan. They show that Zoanthus sansibaricus has some genetic variation in its symbiosis with Symbiodinium, potentially allowing the species to colonize different depths on the subtropical coral reef.…”