Two new species of soft coral Chironephthya from the Gulf of Thailand

One of the new species has received HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn’s gracious permission to be named Chironephthya sirindhornae. The other is C. cornigera.

YUKIMITSU IMAHARA, SUCHANA CHAVANICH, VORANOP VIYAKARN, YUKA KUSHIDA, JAMES D. REIMER, TOSHIHIKO FUJITA (2020) Two new species of the genus Chironephthya (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Nidaliidae, Siphonogorgiinae) from the Gulf of Thailand. Zootaxa 4780, 324-340. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4780.2.6