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ZOOKEYS
Volume -, Issue 546, Pages 39-50Publisher
PENSOFT PUBL
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.546.6344
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Pennatulacea; Virgulariidae; sea pens; new genus and species; Gulf of Guinea; West Africa; Nigeria; key to the virgulariid genera
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A new genus and species of sea pen or virgulariid pennatulacean from the Gulf of Guinea in the tropical eastern Atlantic is described, and a key to the genera of the Virgulariidae is included. The new genus and species described here adds to the previously described five other genera of the family. It is distinguished by unique sclerite and polyp leaf characters from the superficially-similar genus Virgularia, which lacks conspicuous sclerites in the polyp leaves and coenenchyme (other than minute oval bodies that are generally <0.01 mm in length).
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