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Issue: Vol. 4392 No. 1: 8 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.1
Page range: 1–27
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Euryalid brittle stars from the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1963–64 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalida)

Kerikeri, New Zealand
Misaki Marine Biological Station, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 1024 Koajiro, Misaki, Miura 238-0225 Japan
Department of Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC20013-7012, USA
Echinodermata taxonomy ophiuroids new species deep sea

Abstract

Fourteen species of euryalids are reported from collections made in the eastern and western Indian Ocean during the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Three new species are described: Astrocladus goodingi from the Comoro Islands, Astrocladus socotrana from the northwestern Indian Ocean near the island of Socotra, and Astrocyclus somaliensis from off northeastern Somalia. Range extensions are documented for Asteronyx luzonicus, Astroglymma sculptum, Astrocladus ludwigi, Asteromorpha capensis and Squamophis amamiensis.

 

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