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SUBMITTER: Stiller J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4448810 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stiller Josefin J Wilson Nerida G NG Rouse Greg W GW
Royal Society open science 20150218 2
The exploration of Earth's biodiversity is an exciting and ongoing endeavour. Here, we report a new species of seadragon from Western Australia with substantial morphological and genetic differences to the only two other known species. We describe it as Phyllopteryx dewysea n. sp. Although the leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) and the common seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) occur along Australia's southern coast, generally among relatively shallow macroalgal reefs, the new species was found ...[more]