TY - CHAP
T1 - A new species of the genus electra (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from Southern Oman, Arabian Sea
T2 - A new species of bryozoa from southern Oman
AU - Nikulina, Elena A.
AU - Ostrovsky, Andrew N.
AU - Claereboudt, Michel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A new cheilostome bryozoan Electra omanensis n. sp. is described in Southern Oman (Dhofar Region, Arabian Sea) and is also the first description of any bryozoan from this area. The new species morphologically most resembles Electra indica (Menon and Nair (Mar Biol Ass India 17:553–579, 1975), but differs in (1) colony shape – colonies consist of long narrow branching strips, and (2) in the shape of the gymnocystal spines. The combination of these features is sufficiently distinctive and allows discriminating the new species from all other known species in this genus. Genetic analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal genes also support separate species status for this species of Electra.
AB - A new cheilostome bryozoan Electra omanensis n. sp. is described in Southern Oman (Dhofar Region, Arabian Sea) and is also the first description of any bryozoan from this area. The new species morphologically most resembles Electra indica (Menon and Nair (Mar Biol Ass India 17:553–579, 1975), but differs in (1) colony shape – colonies consist of long narrow branching strips, and (2) in the shape of the gymnocystal spines. The combination of these features is sufficiently distinctive and allows discriminating the new species from all other known species in this genus. Genetic analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal genes also support separate species status for this species of Electra.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Molecular systematics
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_14
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84927761377
T3 - Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences
SP - 203
EP - 216
BT - Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -