A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman

Abstract. A new species, Melithaea davidi sp. n., is described from the eastern coast of Oman, Oman Sea, in the northwestern Indian Ocean, where it differs from its congeners in lacking capstans and having predominantly spindles in the coenenchyme. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of mtMutS and 28S...

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Autores principales: Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, van Ofwegen, Leen P., McFadden, Catherine S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843385
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.623.10045
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description Abstract. A new species, Melithaea davidi sp. n., is described from the eastern coast of Oman, Oman Sea, in the northwestern Indian Ocean, where it differs from its congeners in lacking capstans and having predominantly spindles in the coenenchyme. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of mtMutS and 28S rDNA genes suggests that it is genetically distinct from similar species in the Red Sea. Furthermore, a species previously reported as Acabaria sp. from the Arabian Sea is now identified as Melithaea mabahissi (Hickson, 1940).
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spelling pubmed-50963932016-11-14 A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman Samimi-Namin, Kaveh van Ofwegen, Leen P. McFadden, Catherine S. Zookeys Research Article Abstract. A new species, Melithaea davidi sp. n., is described from the eastern coast of Oman, Oman Sea, in the northwestern Indian Ocean, where it differs from its congeners in lacking capstans and having predominantly spindles in the coenenchyme. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of mtMutS and 28S rDNA genes suggests that it is genetically distinct from similar species in the Red Sea. Furthermore, a species previously reported as Acabaria sp. from the Arabian Sea is now identified as Melithaea mabahissi (Hickson, 1940). Pensoft Publishers 2016-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5096393/ /pubmed/27843385 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.623.10045 Text en Kaveh Samimi-Namin, Leen P. van Ofwegen, Catherine S. McFadden http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Samimi-Namin, Kaveh
van Ofwegen, Leen P.
McFadden, Catherine S.
A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman
title A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman
title_full A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman
title_fullStr A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman
title_full_unstemmed A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman
title_short A new species of Melithaea (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Melithaeidae) from the Oman Sea, off Oman
title_sort new species of melithaea (anthozoa, octocorallia, melithaeidae) from the oman sea, off oman
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27843385
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.623.10045
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