Towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Octocorallia): Part 4, delineating the family Keratoisididae Author Watling, Les School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Author Saucier, Esprit Heestand Faculty of Science, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, 55 - 220 Kulanui St, Laie, Hawaii, 96762, USA Author France, Scott C. Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA text Zootaxa 2022 2022-01-27 5093 3 337 375 journal article 2385 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.3.4 e7f4500d-24b9-4dfb-9967-46d032dad854 1175-5326 5909954 58B73298-6A33-4040-B898-ED3D8A69DA81

TABLE 4. Summary of morphological characters associated with each molecular subclade or indel type.

Typical Genus Clade Axis Branching Pattern Colony Form Polyp Sclerites Pharynx Sclerites Polyp Contraction Polyp Shape Tentacle contraction Sclerites Projecting Beyond Bases of Folded Tentacles Coenenchyme Thickness Coenenchyme Sclerites Polyp Distribution on Axis
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S1 Cladarisis	solid at nodes	whip-like rods, curved thorny	polyp short & into the no	thin none?	sparse,
	or im-	to delicate rods rods	shortens wide, or oral area		mostly on
	mediately	open struc-	tall and		one side
	distal to	ture of long	thin
	node	branches
M1 Orstomisis	solid at nodes	multi-planar rods thorny	polyp short & tentacles no	thin none	opposite or
		flabellate rods	shortens wide over mouth		alternate
			but below
			verrucal
			margin
I1 Lepidisis	hollow, none, or	whip-like to intertentacu- thorny	polyp does tall and tentacles yes,	thin rods or	all sides, usu-
	thin nodal	planar fans lar needles, rods	not shorten thin over mostly needles		ally widely
		long nee-	mouth,		spaced
		dles, scales
		rare
A1 Acanella	solid nodal,	densely needles, thorny	polyp does tall, tentacles yes	thin rods	opposite or
	whorls	branched rods, some stars,	not shorten subovate over mouth		alternate
		bush to intertentacu- short
		flabellate lar rodlets
J3 Jasonisis	hollow, nodal	planar flat rods, thorny	polyp does tall tentacles occasion- thin or flat rods		opposite to
	some- and/or	densely rods, scales, rods	not shorten over mouth ally	thick,	all sides
	times internodal	branched needles		cnidae
	thick or	fans to
	solid	delicate
		brambles to
		whip-like