Gromia marmorea Rothe & Gooday & Cedhagen & Fahrni & Hughes & Page & Pearce & Pawlowski 2009, SP. NOV. ...

GROMIA MARMOREA SP. NOV. (FIGS 2–4) Diagnosis: species of Gromia with a rounded test, which is spherical, to droplet-shaped, to ovoid in shape; diameter 1.0– 3.4 mm, length: width ratio 0.6– 1.9. Overall colour in fresh specimens, greenish with silvery patches, giving marble-like mottling of wall; p...

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Main Authors: Rothe, Nina, Gooday, Andrew J., Cedhagen, Tomas, Fahrni, José, Hughes, J. Alan, Page, Anton, Pearce, Richard B., Pawlowski, Jan
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2009
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Filosia
Aconchulinida
Gromiidae
Gromia
Gromia marmorea
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10545944
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10545944
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Summary:GROMIA MARMOREA SP. NOV. (FIGS 2–4) Diagnosis: species of Gromia with a rounded test, which is spherical, to droplet-shaped, to ovoid in shape; diameter 1.0– 3.4 mm, length: width ratio 0.6– 1.9. Overall colour in fresh specimens, greenish with silvery patches, giving marble-like mottling of wall; preserved specimens, brown. Single, prominent, mound-like oral capsule. Type material and locality: The holotype and paratypes are from an EBS deployment at RV Polarstern station 133#2, 62°46.95 ′ S, 53°1.72 ′ W, 1584 m water depth, 16th March 2005 (Table 1). They are deposited at the Research Institute and Natural History Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main. The holotype is catalogued under reg. no. SMF XXVII 7398. The paratypes are catalogued under reg. no. SMF XXVII 7399. The type specimens were extracted from > 300-Mm residue and are preserved in 4% formaldehyde solution buffered with borax. Additional material: Station 133#2: approximately 130 specimens. Derivation of name: From the Latin marmoreus, ... : Published as part of Rothe, Nina, Gooday, Andrew J., Cedhagen, Tomas, Fahrni, José, Hughes, J. Alan, Page, Anton, Pearce, Richard B. & Pawlowski, Jan, 2009, Three new species of deep-sea Gromia (Protista, Rhizaria) from the bathyal and abyssal Weddell Sea, Antarctica, pp. 451-469 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (3) on pages 455-458, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00540.x, http://zenodo.org/record/10114782 ...

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