A new species of the deepwater pandalid shrimp of the genus Pandalopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pandalidae) from the Kuril Islands, North Pacific

A new species of the family Coryphellidae, Coryphella alexanderi sp. nov. is described based on specimens collected in the Kuril Islands, NorthWest Pacific, from the upper sublittoral to 200 m depth. An integrative analysis was conducted, including a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on four markers (COI, 16S, H3, 28S), an automatic species delimitation method ABGD, and an analysis of the external and internal morphology using light and scanning electron microcopy. The distinctiveness of Coryphella alexanderi sp. nov. is well established both morphologically and genetically, and it differs from externally similar species in radular characters. Phylogenetically Coryphella alexanderi sp. nov. is closely related to Coryphella trophina, which occurs sympatrically in the same geographic and bathymetric ranges. Coryphella alexanderi sp. nov. appears to be restricted to the middle and northern Kuril Islands, which is consistent with the high numbers of endemic taxa in this area.

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Psolidium kharlamenkoi—a new species of holothurian (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida: Psolidae) from the Kuril Islands

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4995.2.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4995 (2) ◽

pp. 266-280

Author(s):

ELENA G. PANINA ◽

VADIM G. STEPANOV ◽

ALEXANDER V. MARTYNOV

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Kuril Islands ◽

The Kuril Islands ◽

A New Species

A new species, Psolidium kharlamenkoi n. sp. (Echinodermata: Dendrochirotida: Psolidae) is described from the Kuril Islands. The new species is distinguished from all previously described species of the genus Psolidium by combination of the external features, ossicles morphology and coloration.

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A new species of the genus Phloeonomus Heer from the Kuril Islands (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Insect Systematics & Evolution ◽

10.1163/187631281x00391 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 78-80

Author(s):

A. Smetana

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Kuril Islands ◽

Palaearctic Species ◽

Kunashir Island ◽

The Kuril Islands ◽

A New Species

AbstractPhloeonomus orientalis, a new species related to Phloeonomus pusillus (Gravenhorst), is described and illustrated from specimens from Kunashir Island in the Kuril Islands. A key to the four Palaearctic species related to P. pusillus is given.

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Claxtonia goni, a new species of Tardigrada (Heterotardigrada, Echiniscidae) from the island of Maui (Hawaiian Islands, U.S.A., North Pacific Ocean), with notes to the genus Claxtonia Gąsiorek & Michalczyk, 2019

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4933.4.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4933 (4) ◽

pp. 527-542

Author(s):

PETER DEGMA ◽

HARRY A. MEYER ◽

JULIANA G. HINTON

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

North Pacific ◽

National Park ◽

North Pacific Ocean ◽

Central Area ◽

The Other ◽

New Combinations ◽

Unequally Spaced ◽

A New Species ◽

Lateral Plates

A new Tardigrada species, Claxtonia goni sp. nov. is described from specimens collected in the central area of the Haleakalā National Park, the island of Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A. The new species and Clx. pardalis (Degma & Schill, 2015) together with several examples of Clx. wendti (Richters, 1903) are the only known Claxtonia species with the plates having an intracuticular pattern resembling that on a leopard’s fur. Claxtonia goni sp. nov. differs from Clx. pardalis in the absence of pores on leg plates, in smaller and uniform pores on dorso-lateral plates, in very unequally spaced teeth in the dentate collar, in lesser ratio of internal cephalic cirrus and lateral cirrus A lengths, and in relatively shorter claws in fourth pair of legs. The differences between the new species and the other congeners as well as Echiniscus species with the same cirri composition and similar cuticular sculpture are also defined. The diagnosis of the genus Claxtonia is amended and three Echiniscus species are transferred into the genus with the proposed new combinations: Claxtonia aliquantilla (Grigarick, Schuster & Nelson, 1983) comb. nov., Clx. mosaica (Grigarick, Schuster & Nelson, 1983) comb. nov. and Clx. nigripustula (Horning, Schuster & Grigarick, 1978) comb. nov..

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Etmopterus lailae sp. nov., a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.10 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4237 (2) ◽

pp. 371 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

DAVID A. EBERT ◽

YANNIS P. PAPASTAMATIOU ◽

STEPHEN M. KAJIURA ◽

BRADLEY M. WETHERBEE

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

North Pacific ◽

North Pacific Ocean ◽

Hawaiian Islands ◽

Key To Species ◽

Spiral Valve ◽

Meristic Counts ◽

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ◽

A New Species ◽

Central North Pacific

A new species of lanternshark, Etmopterus lailae (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae), is described from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, in the central North Pacific Ocean. The new species resembles other members of the “Etmopterus lucifer” clade in having linear rows of dermal denticles, and most closely resembles E. lucifer from Japan. The new species occurs along insular slopes around seamounts at depths between 314–384 m. It can be distinguished from other members of the E. lucifer clade by a combination of characteristics, including a longer anterior flank marking branch, arrangement of dermal denticles on the ventral snout surface and body, flank and caudal markings, and meristic counts including number of spiral valve turns, and precaudal vertebrate. A key to species of the Etmopterus lucifer-clade is included.

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