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As conspicuous modular components of benthic marine habitats, gorgonian (sea fan) octocorals have perplexed taxonomists for centuries through their shear diversity, particularly throughout the Indo–Pacific. Phenotypic incongruence within and between seemingly unitary lineages across contrasting environments can provide the raw material to investigate processes of disruptive selection. Two distinct phenotypes of the Isidid  Isis hippuris   Linnaeus, 1758  partition between differing reef environments: long-branched bushy colonies on degraded reefs, and short-branched multi/planar colonies on healthy reefs within the Wakatobi Marine National Park (WMNP), Indonesia. Multivariate analyses reveal phenotypic traits between morphotypes were likely integrated primarily at the colony level with increased polyp density and consistently smaller sclerite dimensions at the degraded site. Sediment load and turbidity, hence light availability, primarily influenced phenotypic differences between the two sites. This distinct morphological dissimilarity between the two sites is a reliable indicator of reef health; selection primarily acting on colony morphology, porosity through branching structure, as well as sclerite diversity and size. ITS2 sequence and predicted RNA secondary structure further revealed intraspecific variation between  I. hippuris  morphotypes relative to such environments (Φ ST  = 0.7683,  P  < 0.001). This evidence suggests—but does not confirm—that  I. hippuris  morphotypes within the WMNP are two separate species; however, to what extent and taxonomic assignment requires further investigation across its full geographic distribution. Incongruence between colonies present in the WMNP with tenuously described  Isis  alternatives ( Isis reticulata   Nutting, 1910 ,  Isis minorbrachyblasta   Zou, Huang & Wang, 1991 ), questions the validity of such assignments. Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses confirm early taxonomic suggestion that the characteristic jointed axis of the Isididae is in fact a convergent trait. Thus the polyphyletic nature of the Isididae lies in its type species  I. hippuris , being unrelated to the rest of its family members.

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Environmental influences on the Indo–Pacific octocoral<i>Isis hippuris</i>Linnaeus 1758 (Alcyonacea: Isididae): genetic fixation or phenotypic plasticity?

Environmental influences on the Indo–Pacific octocoralIsis hippurisLinnaeus 1758 (Alcyonacea: Isididae): genetic fixation or phenotypic plasticity?