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On six new species of Zygophylax Quelch, 1885 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Zygophylacidae) from the New Calendonian region.

ÁLvaro L. Peña Cantero

subject

CnidariaLafoeidaeZygophylaxBiodiversityZoologyBiodiversityLeptothecataBiologybiology.organism_classificationCnidariaHydrozoaExpeditionsAnimaliaAnimalsAnimal Science and ZoologyCoelenterataEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsTaxonomyHydrozoa

description

Six new species of Zygophylax (Z. dispersa sp. nov., Z. encarnae sp. nov., Z. laertesi sp. nov., Z. medeae sp. nov., Z. niobae sp. nov. and Z. pseudoabietinella sp. nov.) are described and figured. The material studied was present in collections from several French expeditions in the western Pacific, mostly in the waters around New Caledonia and vicinity. 

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-08-06Zootaxa
10.11646/zootaxa.4822.3.4https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33056278