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Issue: Vol. 2096 No. 1: 11 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.30
Page range: 484–488
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 12

Peniagone crozeti a new species of elasipodid holothurian from abyssal depths off the Crozet Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky Pr., 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky Pr., 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom
Echinodermata Elpidiidae Elasipodida Holothuroidea taxonomy

Abstract

Material collected from the RRS Discovery Cruise 300 to the Crozet Islands contained a new species of elasipodid holothurian Peniagone crozeti sp. nov. This new species dominated the megafauna at an abyssal site to the east of the islands under an area of high surface productivity, but was found in low abundance at a site located south of the islands under a high nutrient low chlorophyll regime, typical for many areas in the Southern Ocean. Peniagone crozeti differs from other members of the genus by the shape of its calcareous deposits.

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