Neoanthomastus Li, Li & Xu, 2025

Li, Xinlong, Xu, Ningxia, Ge, Meiling, Hu, Xuying, Li, Mengna, Wang, Zongling, Zhang, Xuelei & Xu, Qinzeng, 2025, Morphology and phylogeny of two new species of deep-sea mushroom soft corals (Octocorallia, Corallidae, Anthomastinae) from the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (4), pp. 2103-2121 : 2103-2121

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.163559
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17532483
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scientific name	Neoanthomastus Li, Li & Xu, 2025
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Genus Neoanthomastus Li, Li & Xu, 2025

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Diagnosis.

(Modified from Li et al. 2025, with bold italics indicating modifications.) Mushroom-shaped, capitate colonies with dome-shaped capitulum separated from a conspicuous and often cylindrical stalk. Polyps dimorphic, with sclerites. Autozooids arranged over capitulum, sterile, large, not very numerous, retractile but not completely retracted. Sclerites equally developed around autozooids. Anthocodial armature more developed near base of tentacles. Siphonozooids scattered over both capitulum and stalk, fertile, conspicuous, feebly armored, and numerous. Sclerites multiradiates, rods, spindles, needles, clubs, and crosses. Pharyngeal sclerites predominantly rodlets, sometimes with crosses. Tentacular sclerites predominately rods, spindles, and multiradiates.

Type species.

Neoanthomastus stellatus Li, Li & Xu, 2025 .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
Order	Scleralcyonacea
Family	Coralliidae
SubFamily	Anthomastinae