Publication Date:
2024-01-12
Description:
This paper presents the description of a new lobate ctenophore, Bathocyroe longigula (order Lobata, family Bathocyroidae) based on two intact specimens. One was collected in April 2001 at the surface in
\ncoastal waters of Ise Bay near Toba on the Pacific coast of central Japan, and the other in March 2010 at
\nthe surface in Tabira port near Hirado in Kyushu, the main southern island of Japan. The new species
\ncan be distinguished from its congeners, Bathocyroe fosteri Madin & Harbison, 1978 and B. paragaster
\n(Ralph & Kaberry, 1950), by its long stomodaeum with a narrow dark-orange band, which extends to
\nabout mid-length of the oral lobes, and the numerous tiny, dark-orange spots of irregular shape found
\nalong its meridional canals. The differences between the three species attributed to the genus Bathocyroe
\nare shown in Table 1.
Keywords:
Ctenophora
;
Lobata
;
Bathocyroidae
;
new species
;
description
;
taxonomy
;
Japan
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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