Sammanfattning

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.

Nyckelord

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

Publicerad i

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
2014, Volym: 94, nummer: 2, sidor: 317-330
Utgivare: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS

SLU författare

• Strand, Malin

  • SLU Artdatabanken, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Zoologi
Biologisk systematik


Publikationens identifierare

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

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