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A new isopod species from the abyssal South Pacific ocean: Eugerda gigantea sp. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Desmosomatidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Ja-Yang Park
Affiliation:
Fakultät für Biologie, Lehrstuhl für Spezielle Zoologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Postfach 10 01 31, 44780 Bochum, Germany, Ja-Yang.Park@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Abstract

The new species Eugerda gigantea sp. nov. is described from the abyssal of the equatorial eastern South Pacific. For the genus Eugerda this is the first record from the South Pacific ocean, the other known species of the genus occur in the northern hemisphere or the equatorial Atlantic ocean.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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