, collected from the sublittoral muddy bottom of Korean waters, is described as a new species. The Korean new species closely resembles Hutchings & Rainer, 1979 in the chaetal arrangement and the details of abdominal segments, but differs in the position of genital pores and the absence of eyes. DNA sequences (mtCOI, 16S rRNA, and histone H3) of the new species were compared with all the available sequences of species in the GenBank database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo populations of new species are described for Dudich, 1931 from the southeastern coast and Jeju island of South Korea (north west Pacific). The specimens were collected using a light trap set overnight at the entrance near a pier or harbour. is clearly differentiated from other species in the genus by the uropod with five articles, a maxillule palp with four distal setae, the maxilliped coxa with three proximal setae, the epignath with short and blunt spiniform seta, the propodus of pereopods 2-3 with three ventral setae, and the maxilla with a rugged shape of the distal margin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(Tanaidacea, Sphyrapodidae) is described from the southern coast of Korea (NW Pacific). The genus is included in the subfamily Sphyrapodinae , 1980 by having a mandible lacking a palp. It has a close affinity with the genus Bamber & Marshall, 2013 in the third pereonite having lateral pointed apophyses, the antennule of males with fringes of aesthetascs on articles 1 and 2 of the outer flagellum and the antenna with an elongate article 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF, collected from the sublittoral muddy bottom in southern Korea, is described as a new species. The taxonomic status of the monospecific genus has been a subject of controversy for many years, as its characteristics overlap those given in recent generic definitions of . The results of a comprehensive review and comparison regarding the two genera, based on previous records showed minor differences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of Phoxokalliapseudes from the southwestern and southern coasts of Korea are described. Phoxokalliapseudes aculeatus n. sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of Parameiropsis are herein described that were identified from the Korean Deep Ocean Study (KODOS) in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, located in the eastern central Pacific. Parameiropsis kodosensis n. sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new species of Neotanais Beddard, 1886 are described from the Korea Deep Ocean Study (KODOS) area in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, based on the collections performed on board R/V Onnuri from a depth of 5180 m. Neotanais triqueturus n. sp.
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