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A New Mesopelagic Appendicularian: Oikopleura Villafrancae sp. nov.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. Fenaux
R. Fenaux
Affiliation:
URA 716, Observatoire Océanologique, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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A new species, Oikopleura villafrancae, from the family Oikopleuridae (Lohmann 1915), subfamily Oikopleurinae (Lohmann 1896), genus Oikopleura (Mertens 1830), is described from numerous specimens collected at mesopelagic depth (360–880 m) during two different cruises: Migragel II (May 1988) and Medapp (May 1990) in the Ligurian Sea (northwest Mediterranean) between Villefranche-sur-Mer (French Riviera) and Corsica, respectively by the ‘Cyana’ and ‘Johnson-Sea-Link’ manned submersibles.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , November 1992 , pp. 911 - 914
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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