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SUBMITTER: Xu P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5646664 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Peng P Zhou Yadong Y Wang Chunsheng C
ZooKeys 20170713 685
A new species of the deep-sea spongicolid genus <i>Spongicoloides</i> Hansen, 1908 is described and illustrated based on material from the northwestern Pacific. <i>Spongicoloides weijiaensis</i><b>sp. n.</b> was found inside a hexactinellid sponge, <i>Euplectella</i> sp., sampled by the Chinese manned submersible "Jiaolong" at depths of 2279 m near the Weijia Guyot, in the Magellan Seamount Chain. The new species can be distinguished from all congeneric species by several morphological features, ...[more]