A new species ofTylophorafrom coral reef areas in Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan, China

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen-Hsueh TSENG ◽  
Chien-Ti CHAO ◽  
Hui-Wen LIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
A New Species

Mangrove sponges from Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) with the description of a new species

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 1417-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Calcinai ◽  
Azzurra Bastari ◽  
Daisy M. Makapedua ◽  
Carlo Cerrano
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Sponge Species ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Few Data ◽  
A New Species

Mangroves create unique ecological environments, furnishing a habitat opportunity for many species. The majority of published information on mangrove sponges comes from the Caribbean while few data are available from Indo-Pacific mangrove sponges. In general, species diversity of sponges in mangroves is lower than adjacent subtidal habitats in both the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific. The aim of this study is to report the first data about sponge species diversity of two mangrove forests from Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) and to describe a new sponge species associated with the mangroves. The survey found 19 species, belonging to 11 families and 15 genera; the samples were collected on mangrove trunks, on the roots or on the surrounding bottom. The majority of the species are typical of coral reef but two of them have been previously found only in lagoons or in mangrove habitats. These new data enlarge our knowledge about Indonesian sponges diversity and suggest the urgency to consider Indonesian mangroves as an important but underestimated element in coral reef ecological dynamics.

Lysianopsis adelae, new species of amphipod (Gammaridea: Lysianassidae) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, SW Gulf of Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2205 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
IGNACIO WINFIELD ◽  
MANUEL ORTIZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Reef System ◽  
Aplysina Fistularis ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Coral Reef System

A new species of amphipod of the genus Lysianopsis from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, SW Gulf of Mexico is described. Lysianopsis adelae n. sp., was collected in the sediments at the base of the sponge Aplysina fistularis at a depth of 10 m. The differences among L. alba, L. hummelincki, and L. ozona, recorded from Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea are pointed out and they are compared with the new species.

scholarly journals Gato hyalinus gen. et sp. nov., an unusual araphid tube-dwelling diatom from Western Pacific and Caribbean islands

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER S. LOBBAN ◽  
J. NELSON NAVARRO
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Valve Structure ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Apical Axis

A new species of tube-dwelling diatom, unusual in being araphid, is described from benthic coral reef habitats in Guam, Palau, Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Gato gen. nov. is heteropolar and heterovalvar, exhibits very fine striae delimiting a narrow and irregular sternum, and possesses a series of rimmed pores on each side of the foot pole. One valve of the frustule has a rimoportula at the foot pole, but both valves possess a rimoportula at the head pole. The generitype, G. hyalinus sp. nov. forms small, branched colonies. Individual cells are oval, slightly tapered along the apical axis, 30–40 µm x 13–15 µm, with 60–70 striae in 10 µm. On the foot pole with a rimoportula the rimmed pores are connected to the sternum by diagonal striae; several additional rimmed pores interrupt transapical striae further up both valves. We compare valve structure of G. hyalinus with Florella portoricensis and F. pascuensis, which we report for the first time from the Marshall Islands, and to Licmophora spp. We find no taxa to which this genus is related, and can identify no structure potentially homologous to the series of rimmed pores among the diatoms.

scholarly journals A new species of Heteromysis (Mysida: Mysidae) from public coral reef aquaria in Vienna, Austria

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (0) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Karl J. Wittmann ◽  
Daniel Abed-Navandi
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
A New Species

Cinachyrella anatriaenilla sp. nov., a new tetillid sponge with microacanthoxeas from American Samoa in the South Pacific

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4258 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIO C.C. FERNANDEZ ◽  
MICHELLE KELLY ◽  
LORI J. BELL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Republic Of Palau ◽  
American Samoan ◽  
Careful Comparison ◽  
A New Species

Several sponges from American Samoa, collected by the Coral Reef Research Foundation, Republic of Palau, were tentatively identified by one of us as Acanthotetilla cf seychellensis (Thomas 1973), due to the possession of relatively small acanthose oxeas, compared to those of other species of the genus Acanthotetilla Burton 1959. These sponges were later compared to Cinachyrella australiensis (Carter 1886), taking into account the lack of conspicuous spination on the acanthose oxeas and general features of spiculation and skeletal organisation. The specimens were later considered to represent a new species of the genus Cinachyrella Wilson 1925, after a careful comparison was made between the American Samoan specimens and C. australiensis which also contains small acanthose oxeas. Several recent molecular phylogenetic studies have confirmed the generic assignment of one of the American Samoan specimens as belonging to Cinachyrella. Cinachyrella anatriaenilla sp. nov., described herein, is the fifth of 40 Cinachyrella spp. that contain lightly spined microacanthoxeas. 

Pseudaeginella telukrimau sp. n., a new species of caprellid (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Malaysia

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4282 (1) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
JACQUELINE HUI CHERN LIM ◽  
BIN ABDUL RAHIM AZMAN ◽  
ICHIRO TAKEUCHI ◽  
BIN HAJI ROSS OTHMAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Mandibular Molar ◽  
A New Species

A new species of caprellid, Pseudaeginella telukrimau (Amphipoda: Senticaudata: Caprellidae) was discovered from Pulau Besar, Johor in Malaysia. This species was collected from a coral reef off Teluk Rimau. Species of Pseudaeginella are unique in terms of a very small/sometimes absent mandibular molar and the numerous projections on its pereonites. Pseudaeginella telukrimau is distinguishable by its paired mid-dorsal projections on pereonites 2 to 5, 1 ventrodistal triangular projection on pereonite 4, and gnathopod 2 ischium with 1 large trapezoid projection. 

A new species of Nuuanu (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Nuuanuidae) from a Caribbean coral reef with identification keys to males and females of Nuuanu species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4294 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
MANUEL ORTIZ ◽  
IGNACIO WINFIELD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Coral Rubble ◽  
Cephalic Lobe ◽  
Tropical Coral ◽  
Caribbean Coral Reef ◽  
Tropical Coral Reef ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
A New Species

A new species of amphipod of the genus Nuuanu is described and illustrated, and is diagnosed against the morphologically most similar species. It was collected in coral rubble from a tropical coral reef, NW Caribbean Sea. The new species increases the number of Nuuanu species recorded to 20 worldwide. Nuuanu jaumei sp. nov., can be distinguished from other members of the genus by a combination of characters: head with bigeminal dispersed eyes; mammiliform lateral cephalic lobe; anteroventral notch of head well defined; antenna 1 geniculate; accessory flagellum 3–articulate; coxa 5 devoid of seta on ventromedial margin; article 2 anteroventral corner of pereopod 5 with a strong setae; epimera 1, 2, 3 with 2, 4, 1 ventral robust setae respectively; telson longer than broad; female gnathopod 2 with 2 long and slender setae on posterior margin. In addition, a key for the identification of all known male species of the genus Nuuanu, and another for the identification of the females, are also presented. 

A new species of Monandrocarpa (Ascidiacea, Styelidae) from Vanuatu I. (South Pacific Ocean)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2044 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANÇOISE MONNIOT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Single Male ◽  
South Pacific Ocean ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The U.S

The U.S  Coral Reef Research Foundation collected by SCUBA various marine invertebrates in the islands of Vanuatu. Among them was a small bulbous ascidian settled on thin test stolons of another discrete ascidian being very similar in colour and shape. It is a new species of the genus Monandrocarpa (Styelidae) in which few species have been recorded. This genus is characterised by gonads in rows of hermaphrodite polycarps, each of them containing a single male vesicle. Other species in the same genus are discussed.

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