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Issue: Vol. 1514 No. 1: 25 Jun. 2007
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2007-06-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1514.1.4
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of Eudistoma magalhaensis (Michaelsen, 1907) (Ascidiacea) from Guaitecas Islands, Chile

Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Institute of Geography, Partizanskaya 6, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000, Russia
Universidad Austral de Chile, Institute of Marine Biology, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile
Ascidiacea

Abstract

The type species of the genus Paessleria Michaelsen 1907, known previously only from the original description is newly recorded from the Guaitecas Islands. All features of this species are characteristic of the genus Eudistoma confirming that Paessleria and Eudistoma are synonyms.

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