A new species of the genus Rhopalaea (Class: Ascidiacea) from the Red Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3599 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
NOA SHENKAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Thoracic Muscle ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
Natural Coral ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Sea Coast

During regular surveys and collection of ascidians along the Red Sea coast of Israel, several specimens of an undescribed species of Rhopalaea were collected. Samples were collected by SCUBA from the natural coral reef and man-made structures at depths between 10 to 40m. This is the first species of the genus Rhopalaea described from the Red Sea, which is characterized by a transparent, uncolored gelatinous tunic with elongated attachment extensions, and is distinguished by its eight atrial lobes, thoracic muscle arrangement, and branchial sac structure.

A new species of the genus Boltenia (Ascidiacea) from the Red Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2391 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
NOA SHENKAR ◽  
GRETCHEN LAMBERT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Sea Coast

Between 2003 and 2008 during surveys and collection of ascidians along the Red Sea coast of Israel several specimens of an undescribed species of Boltenia were collected by SCUBA from man-made structures at 1–20 m depth. This is the first species of the genus Boltenia described from the Red Sea. We name the new species Boltenia yossiloya in honor of Professor Yossi Loya, a world renowned researcher of the coral reefs of Eilat.

A new species of Schizophrys (Majoidea: Majidae: Majinae) from the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, with description of its first zoea

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1163-1169
Author(s):  
Ali M. Al-Aidaroos ◽  
A. A. J. Kumar ◽  
Ahmed E. Al-Haj ◽  
Moritz Sonnewald
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
New Species ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Sea Coast

Late Pleistocene Red Sea Mollusca: 1. Polyplacophora

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4772 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-449
Author(s):  
BRUNO DELL’ANGELO ◽  
BERNARD M. LANDAU ◽  
MAURIZIO SOSSO ◽  
MARCO TAVIANI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Generic Level ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
First Time ◽  
Sea Coast

This study describes the chiton fauna (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from the marine Pleistocene coral reef deposits bordering the Red Sea coast and dating to the last interglacial epoch (Marine Isotopic Substage 5e, MIS5e). Twenty-one species were identified, of which only three were previously known from the Pleistocene of the Red Sea (Lucilina sueziensis, Acanthopleura vaillantii and Acanthochitona penicillata). Eight are recorded as fossil for the first time. Six are described as new (Lucilina confusa n. sp., L. aqabaensis n. sp., L. aegyptiaca n. sp., L. colantonii n. sp., “Onithochiton” vandingeneni” n. sp., and Acanthochitona interglacialis n. sp.) and two are assigned at generic level (Callochiton sp. and Craspedochiton sp.). Four of these new species (Lucilina confusa n. sp., L. aegyptiaca n. sp., L. colantonii n. sp. and “Onithochiton” vandingeneni n. sp.) are still living in the Red Sea, bringing to 28 the number of extant species known from the Red Sea. These Pleistocene Red Sea assemblages represent the most diverse chiton fauna yet reported from any interglacial deposit worldwide. 

A NEW SUCCULENT EUPHORBIA (EUPHORBIACEAE) SPECIES FROM THE RED SEA COAST AND ISLANDS

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Al-Zahrani ◽  
Z. A. R. El-Karemy
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Red Sea Coast ◽  
Sea Coast

AbstractThe shrubby, spiny, succulent species Euphorbia collenetteae D.Al-Zahrani & El-Karemy (Euphorbiaceae) from the southern Red Sea coast and islands is described and illustrated as new. Diagnostic characters, a description and taxonomic comments on the species are given. It is compared with the closely related Euphorbia fractiflexa S.Carter & J.R.I.Wood. The geographical distribution of the new species is shown.

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