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Issue: Vol. 4808 No. 2: 2 Jul. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-07-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.2.10
Page range: 379–383
Abstract views: 188
PDF downloaded: 7

A histology-free description of a new species of the genus Tetrastemma (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea: Monostilifera) from Hawaii and India

A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Palchevskogo Street 17, Vladivostok 690041, Russia Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok 690091, Russia
A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Palchevskogo Street 17, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
Centre for Molecular and Nanomedical Sciences, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai-600119, India
Centre for Molecular and Nanomedical Sciences, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai-600119, India
Centre for Climate Change Studies, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai-600119, India.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA.
Centre for Molecular and Nanomedical Sciences, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai-600119, India
Lophotrochozoa cox1 DNA barcode marine invertebrates ribbon worm turbo taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the genus Tetrastemma Ehrenberg, 1831, T. freyae sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Hawaii and India. The description is based on light microscopy examination of the external and internal morphology, as well as on two gene markers (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and histone H3 DNA).

 

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