Abstract

In recent years the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative started thorough investigations of poorly known organism groups. In this context, several marine inventories have rendered a number of marine invertebrate species new to science. Within the phylum Nemertea (ribbon worms) a characteristic hoplonemertean was encountered on two different occasions. We describe the new species Amphiporus rectangulus sp. nov. with a combination of histology and DNA data (COI). For the morphological description we use a previously proposed character matrix and, in a context given by the results, also provide a brief discussion on benefits and drawbacks with both methods. We argue that for small animals with soft bodies external characters can be more informative than hitherto expected.

Keywords

Hoplonemertea; COI; mt-DNA; description; morphology; characters

Published in

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
2014, Volume: 94, number: 2, pages: 317-330
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS

SLU Authors

• Strand, Malin

  • SLU Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Zoology
Biological Systematics


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531541300146X

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/53600