Zoanthids/Zoanthus identification
First ever post here - feel like I am in first grade.
Was very surprised to see the discussion on Zoanthus gigantus in this forum, and happy too - great to see people who have tons of experience with zoanthids debating the pros and cons of classification ideas. Anyways - fcwham's comments on the two papers and the overall conclusions are completely in line with what we stated in the papers, namely:
1. based on the DNA we examined from the Palythoa and Protopalythoa spp. samples we used, all should be classified as Palythoa spp.
2. from the pics I have seen, the "people eaters" are what we have described as Zoanthus gigantus (see the pic fcwham posted earlier).
Would love to here from people on our conclusions - you never know when and where you'll get your next research idea!
Cheers,
James Reimer
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