Ziminella vrijenhoeki Valdés & Lundsten & Wilson 2018, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Valdés, Ángel, Lundsten, Lonny, Wilson, Nerida G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Nudibranchia; Paracoryphellidae; Ziminella; Ziminella vrijenhoeki; Pacific; Blue whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5971404; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5971404

Ziminella vrijenhoeki sp. nov. (Figs. 2 D–E, 11–13) Type material. Holotype: Blue whale skeleton (implanted on 5 Oct 2004), Monterey Bay, California (36.772, - 122.083), 1018 m depth, ROV Tiburon (dive 1072), 13 Jan 2007, 20 mm preserved length (SIO-BIC M12137), GenBank accession numbers: MH 756136 (COI), MH 756130 (16S), MH 756141 (H3). Paratype: Whale skeleton (unknown species, likely naturally occurring), Monterey Bay, California, (36.7721, - 122.0831), 595 m depth, ROV Doc Ricketts (dive 94), 16 Nov 2009, 24 mm preserved length, dissected (SIO-BIC M12135), GenBank accession numbers: MH 756135 (COI), MH 756129 (16S), MH 756140 (H3). Description. Body elongate, narrow (Figs. 2D), with numerous elongate, thin, dorso-lateral cerata. Cerata arranged in densely packed rows, running from behind oral tentacles to posterior end of body (Figs. 2D, 11 C–D). Cerata increase in size in each row, lateral cerata typically shorter, dorsal cerata longer. Oral tentacles short and wide (Figs. 11 A–D, 11E), nearly conical ... : Published as part of Valdés, Ángel, Lundsten, Lonny & Wilson, Nerida G., 2018, Five new deep-sea species of nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cladobranchia) from the Northeast Pacific, pp. 401-433 in Zootaxa 4526 (4) on pages 415-420, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2611755 ...