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Issue: Vol. 1050 No. 1: 16 Sept. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-09-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1050.1.2
Page range: 15–20
Abstract views: 75
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Rynkatorpa felderi, new species, from a bathyal hydrocarbon seep in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida)

National Museum of Natural History, Mail Stop MRC163, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20013-7012
National Museum of Natural History, Mail Stop MRC163, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20013-7012
Echinodermata Rynkatorpa felderi cold seeps Gulf of Mexico Holothuroidea Apodida

Abstract

Rynkatorpa felderi new species was collected at a cold hydrocarbon seep at bathyal depths in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This is the first record of a synaptid holothurian from a chemosynthetic site, and the first record of the genus Rynkatorpa in the Atlantic; all other congeners are known from the Indo-Pacific.

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