Stolonifera from shallow waters in the north-western Pacific: a description of a new genus and two new species within the Arulidae (Anthozoa, Octocorallia)

Phylogenetic reconstruction for arulid specimens from Okinawa Island (OKA), Palau (ROR), Dongsha Atoll (DSX), arulid reference taxa (Arula petunia) and outgroup sister taxa (Paratelesto sp. and Rhodelinda sp.) using the combined COI+mtMutS+28S rDNA dataset. The best maximum likelihood tree is shown, with values at branches representing bootstrap probabilities (>50%) and posterior probabilities from the Bayesian inference analysis (>0.50), respectively. Sclerites unique to Hana hanagasa and Hana hanataba are shown and typical table radiates found in the family Arulidae are shown for the genus Arula.