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Editorial
Protection of marine species diversity in China
SUN Jun
2018, 37(10): 1-3. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1292-3
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Morphology, ultrastructure and phylogeny of Cyanothece sp. (Cyanobacteriaceae: Cyanophyceae) isolated from the eastern Indian Ocean
ZHANG Xiaodong, YANG Shuang, SUN Jun, WU Chao, WANG Jing, ZHANG Guicheng, DING Changling
2018, 37(10): 4-10. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1297-y
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One strain of unicellular greenish algae embedded by mucilage was successfully isolated from equatorial area in the Indian Ocean. Microscopic observation, ultrastructure features and genetic identification confirmed that the strain was closely relate...
The morphological and phylogenetic characterization for the dinoflagellate Margalefidinium fulvescens (=Cochlodinium fulvescens) isolated from the Jiaozhou Bay, China
HU Zhangxi, DENG Yunyan, LI Yuhang, TANG Ying Zhong
2018, 37(10): 11-17. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1295-0
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The dinoflagellate genus Margalefidinium has been split from Cochlodinium as a new genus recently and Margalefidinium fulvescens is one of the five Margalefidinium species. Margalefidinium fulvescens is toxic and has been reported from the coastal wa...
Heterocapsa bohaiensis sp. nov. (Peridiniales: Dinophyceae): a novel marine dinoflagellate from the Liaodong Bay of Bohai Sea, China
XIAO Jie, SUN Na, ZHANG Yiwen, SUN Ping, LI Yan, PANG Min, LI Ruixiang
2018, 37(10): 18-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1296-z
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A small armed dinoflagellate bloomed in the aquaculture ponds off the coast of Liaodong Bay, Bohai Sea of China, resulting in heavy mortalities of the cultured prawns (Penaeus japonicus) and larvae of Chinese mitten handed crabs (Eriocheir sinensis)....
The first record of Pavlova pinguis (Pavlovophyceae, Haptophyta) in China seas
ZHANG Xiaodong, YANG Shuang, SUN Jun, QIAO Yanlong, WANG Jing, LIU Haijiao
2018, 37(10): 28-32. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1294-1
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One strain of unicellular flagellated yellow-green algae was successfully isolated from the coastal area near Tianjin in the Bohai Sea in May 2015. The strain ranged from round to elongated in shape. Most of the cells possessed active motility, and s...
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Pleurosira nanjiensis sp. nov., a new marine benthic diatom from the Nanji Islands, China
LI Yuhang, NAGUMO Tamotsu, XU Kuidong
2018, 37(10): 33-39. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1298-x
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A new marine benthic diatom, Pleurosira nanjiensis sp. nov., is described from the rocky intertidal zone of the Xiaochaiyu Island of the Nanji Islands in China. Its morphology was examined with light and scanning electron microscopy. Molecular phylog...
Marine green alga Cladophora aokii Yamada and its epiphytes from Yinggehai, Hainan, China: morphological taxonomy, formation and analysis of its environmental adaption
DING Lanping, DAI Yue, HUANG Bingxin, LI Yongmei, LIU Rui, DENG Shaoyang
2018, 37(10): 40-45. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1299-9
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Based on specimens collected in Yinggehai, Hainan, China from 2013 to 2016, a stable epiphytic taxon is found on the surface of the individual of marine green alga Cladophora aokii Yamada. According to the morphological characteristics, the taxonomy ...
Modern planktonic foraminifera from the eastern Indian Ocean
MUNIR Sonia, SUN Jun
2018, 37(10): 46-63. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1300-7
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A brief morphometric study of the recent planktonic foraminifera in the eastern Indian Ocean was provided with the taxonomic key to species, synonyms, SEM microphotographs of shells and chamber arrays. By recent classification, currently 20 species r...
Morphology of four Miliolinella species (Foraminifera, Protozoa) with description of a new species, Miliolinella obesa nov. spec., from the tropical West Pacific Ocean
LEI Yanli, LI Tiegang
2018, 37(10): 64-69. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1301-6
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Foraminiferal oozes were sampled from the tropical West Pacific seamount and seabed of deep sea, by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in December 2014 and March 2016. Using standard morphological method, four Miliolinella species, including Milioline...
Polyconchoecia commixtus gen. et sp. nov. (Ostracoda: Myodocopa: Halocyprididae) from the South China Sea
DU Feiyan, XIANG Peng, CHEN Ruixiang, WANG Lianggen, WANG Yu, WANG Chunguang, LIN Mao
2018, 37(10): 70-78. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1302-5
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Planktonic ostracods are small crustaceans abundant in marine ecosystem worldwide as appreciable part of marine zooplankton. Family Halocyprididae is a large group of halocyprid ostracods, and the tribe Conchoeciini has contained 21 genera previously...
The first snapshot study on horizontal distribution and identification of five peritrich ciliates (Genus Vorticella Linnaeus and Zoothamnium Bory de St. Vincent) from the eastern Indian Ocean
MUNIR Sonia, SUN Jun
2018, 37(10): 79-85. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1303-4
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Epipont peritrich ciliates are one of the most sessilie protists that attached to the substrate of zooplankton communities especially copepods and crustaceans. Peritrich ciliates can be solitary or colonial form found from the coastal zones and embay...
Morphological studies of six free-living spirotrichean ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) with three new records from the coastal South China Sea
CHEN Xumiao, XU Kuidong
2018, 37(10): 86-90. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1304-3
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The living morphology and infraciliature of six spirotrichous ciliates collected from the coastal South China Sea were investigated using live observation and protargol impregnation. These are Euplotes woodruffi Gaw, 1939, Hemigastrostyla enigmatica ...
Four first records of trichodinid (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) ectoparasites from cultured molluscs and fishes in China
ZHAN Zifeng, ZENG Hong, LIN Nengfeng, XU Kuidong
2018, 37(10): 91-97. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1305-2
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Four species of Trichodina parasitizing the gills of cultured molluscs and fishes in China are described: Trichodina pectenis Stein, 1974 from the scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis; Trichodina jadranica Raabe, 1958 from the fishes Mugil cephalus and An...
Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from the South China Sea IV: Family Bougainvilliidae (Anthomedusae)
GUO Donghui, XU Zhenzu, HUANG Jiaqi, LIN Mao, WANG Chunguang
2018, 37(10): 98-103. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1308-z
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This study reviews all genera and species belonging to the family Bougainvilliidae from the South China Sea. The Nubiella atentaculata Xu and Huang, 2004 formerly included in the genus Nubiella, now is transferred to a new genus Paranubiella and incl...
Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from the South China Sea V: Families Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazziidae, and Mitrocomidae (Leptomedusae)
WANG Chunguang, XU Zhenzu, GUO Donghui, HUANG Jiaqi, LIN Mao
2018, 37(10): 104-111. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1309-y
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This study reviews all species belonging to the families Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazziidae, and Mitrocomidae in the South China Sea. Two new species, Eucheilota carinata sp. nov. and Halopsis nanhaiensis sp. nov., are described and illustrated...
Taxonomic notes on Anthomedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Hydroidomedusa) from the south-central South China Sea, with a new genus and four new species
DU Feiyan, WANG Lianggen, XU Zhenzu, HUANG Jiaqi, GUO Donghui
2018, 37(10): 112-118. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1310-5
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This study describes and illustrates four new species Laticanna nanhaiensis Xu, Huang and Wang, gen. nov. and sp. nov., Protiaropsis gemmifera Xu, Huang and Du, sp. nov., Merga nanhaiensis Xu, Huang and Guo, sp. nov. and Rhabdoon apiciloculus Xu, Hua...
The genus Chiropsoides (Chirodropida: Chiropsalmidae) from the Andaman Sea, Thai waters
AUNGTONYA Charatsee, XIAO Jie, ZHANG Xuelei, WUTTHITUNTISIL Nattanon
2018, 37(10): 119-125. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1311-4
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Box jellyfish Chiropsoides buitendijki from the coastal zone along the Andaman Sea, southwestern Thailand are characterized by a box-shaped body with unilateral branched tentacles and lack of interradial furrows. Tentacular banding was first reported...
Mediomastus chinensis sp. nov., a new species of Capitellidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the southeast coast of China
LIN Junhui, WANG Jianjun, ZHENG Fengwu
2018, 37(10): 126-129. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1316-z
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Mediomastus is a common genus around the world, and Chinese specimens used to be identified as M. californiensis Hartman. In this study, 118 Mediomastus specimens collected from four localities along the southeast coast of China were examined. They b...
A new species of Leodamas Kinberg, 1866 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae) from the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea
SUN Yue, SUI Jixing, LI Xinzheng
2018, 37(10): 130-135. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1313-2
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Based on polychaete specimens collected from coastal areas of China in 1959, a new species of the family Orbiniidae, Leodamas sinensis sp. nov. is described in the present paper. The new species can be distinguished from its cogeners by the combinati...
Sabaco sinicus, a new species of Maldanidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Chinese coast waters
WANG Yueyun, LI Xinzheng
2018, 37(10): 136-139. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1314-1
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Sabaco sinicus sp. nov. is described based on material collected from Chinese coast. It has been misidentified as Asychis gangeticus Fauvel, 1932 since Uschakov and Wu (1962). Here, we recognized it as a new species based on combination of the follow...
Two species of Hyalinoecia Malmgren, 1867 (Polychaeta: Onuphidae) from the South China Sea, with the first record of Hyalinoecia papillata from China
WU Xuwen, XU Kuidong
2018, 37(10): 140-144. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1315-0
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A taxonomic study of Hyalinoecia species based on the materials deposited in the Marine Biological Museum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (MBMCAS) yielded two species: Hyalinoecia tubicola (Müller, 1776) and H. papillata Imajima, 1999. Both specie...
A new record of Auchenoplax Ehlers, 1887 (Polychaeta: Ampharetidae) from the East China Sea
SUI Jixing, LI Xinzheng
2018, 37(10): 145-147. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1312-3
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A new record of the ampharetid genus Auchenoplax, A. worsfoldi Jirkov and Leontovich, 2013, is reported and described from the East China Sea. The specimens agree well with the original description of Auchenoplax worsfoldi with two pairs of branchiae...
Two new species of free-living nematodes from the East China Sea
SUN Yan, HUANG Mian, HUANG Yong
2018, 37(10): 148-151. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1317-y
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Two new species of free-living marine nematodes of the genera Hopperia and Nemanema are described from the sublittoral sediment of the East China Sea. Hopperia macramphida sp. nov. is characterized by having large amphidial fovea with five turns; arc...
A new free-living nematode, Actinonema falciforme sp. nov. (Nematoda: Chromadoridae), from the continental shelf of the East China Sea
SHI Benze, YU Tingting, XU Kuidong
2018, 37(10): 152-156. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1318-x
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Actinonema falciforme sp. nov. was discovered from the continental-shelf sediments of the East China Sea. It is characterized by six outer labial setae and four cephalic setae in one circle, complex and heterogeneous cuticular ornamentation with late...
Two new species of the genus Wieseria (Nematoda: Enoplaida: Oxystominidae) from the Jiaozhou Bay
HUANG Mian, SUN Jing, HUANG Yong
2018, 37(10): 157-160. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1319-9
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Two new species of free-living marine nematodes of the genus Wieseria are described from the sublittoral sediment of the Jiaozhou Bay in Qingdao. Wieseria sinica sp. nov. is characterized by having short labial and cephalic setae in a backward direct...
Two new free-living nematode species (Comesomatidae) from the mangrove wetlands in Fujian Province, China
GUO Yuqing, CHANG Yu, YANG Peipei
2018, 37(10): 161-167. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1320-3
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Two new free-living marine nematode species from the mangrove wetlands of Fujian Province, China are identified and illustrated. Sabatieria conicoseta sp. nov. is characterized by its short conical somatic setae. There are 12–15 tubular pre-cloacal s...
Two new species of free-living nematodes of genus Tripyloides (Nematoda: Enoplida: Tripyloididae) from mangrove wetlands in the Xiamen Bay, China
FU Sujing, ZENG Jiali, ZHOU Xiping, TAN Wenjuan, CAI Lizhe
2018, 37(10): 168-174. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1321-2
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Two new species of free living nematodes Tripyloides mangrovensis n. sp. and Tripyloides amoyanus n. sp. of genus Tripyloides de Man, 1886 are described from mangroves of the Tong'an Bay and Haimen Island in the Xiamen Bay, China. The two species are...
A new species of Pheronematidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Amphidiscosida) from the Northwest Pacific Ocean
GONG Lin, LI Xinzheng
2018, 37(10): 175-179. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1322-1
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A new species of the family Pheronematidae is described in this study. Specimens were collected at Yap seamount and Caroline seamount in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Poliopogon distortus sp. nov. contains oval macramphidiscs, three categories of amph...
The first record of Ophioleila elegans (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from a deep-sea seamount in the Northwest Pacific Ocean
ZHANG Dongsheng, LU Bo, WANG Chunsheng, O'HARA Timothy D
2018, 37(10): 180-184. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1323-0
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The rare ophiuroid species, Ophioleila elegans, was collected by the submersible Jiaolong from 1 660 m depth on the Caiwei Guyot located in the Magellan Seamount Chain in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. This is the first published record of this species...
The first record of Porcellanaster ceruleus (Echinodermata: Porcellanasteridae) in the South China Sea
ZHANG Ruiyan, WANG Xiaogu, ZHOU Yadong, LU Bo, WANG Chunsheng
2018, 37(10): 185-189. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1324-z
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Porcellanasteridae is a group of starfish that live in the deep ocean around the world. The type species of this family, Porcellanaster ceruleus Wyville Thomson, 1878, is cosmopolitan as well as polymorphic. The first record of its occurrence in the ...
The paranthurid isopod crustacean Paranthura nigropunctata (Lucas, 1846): first record from the Atlantic coast of Morocco
BELATTMANIA Zahira, CHAOUTI Abdellatif, REANI Abdeltif, MACHADO Margarida, ENGELEN Aschwin H, SERRÃO Ester A, SABOUR Brahim
2018, 37(10): 190-194. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1170-z
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The littoral paranthurid isopod crustacean Paranthura nigropunctata (Lucas, 1846) is recorded for the first time from the littoral of El Jadida located on the Atlantic northwest coast of Morocco. Specimens were obtained from the invasive brown seawee...
The first report of the genus Willenstenhelia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) from the China seas, with description of a new species
MA Lin, LI Xinzheng
2018, 37(10): 195-201. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1306-1
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A new species Willenstenhelia mirabilipes sp. nov. (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Miraciiidae) is described based on specimens collected from the South China Sea. This is also the first report of the genus Willenstenhelia from the China seas. The new spec...
A new record of Candacia varicans Giesbrecht, 1892 (male) (Crustacea: Copepoda: Candaciidae) from the South China Sea
LIU Zhensheng, SUN Dong, LI Xiaohui
2018, 37(10): 202-204. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1307-0
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The male of Candacia varicans Giesbrecht, 1892 from the South China Sea was recorded and described. In general, the male of C. varicans is morphologically similar to those of C. armata and C. curta. However, it is distinguished with them by below sev...
Report of a chiton in the genus Leptochiton (Lepidopleurida: Lepidopleurina: Leptochitonidae) from the Yap Trench in the West Pacific Ocean
WANG Chunsheng, ZHOU Yadong, JIANG Dan, HAN Jie
2018, 37(10): 205-208. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1327-9
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Two chiton specimens were collected from sedimentary habitat by China's manned Jiaolong submersible diving to a depth of 6 754 m in the north of the Yap Trench. This is a new locality record for chiton. Both morphological and molecular data support t...
New records of a genus and a species of Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cycloneritimorpha) from the South China Sea
CHEN Zhiyun, ZHANG Junlong
2018, 37(10): 209-211. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1326-x
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A neritid species Vittina pennata (von Born, 1778) is reported for the first time from the South China Sea. This is also the first report of this genus from Chinese waters. The specimen was collected from the Sanya Harbor, Hainan Province, China and ...
Four new records of caridean shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the East China Sea and South China Sea
GAN Zhibin, LI Xinzheng
2018, 37(10): 212-217. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1325-y
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Four species of caridean shrimps collected from the East China Sea and South China Sea represent new records for the Chinese waters: Lysmata kempi Chace, 1997; Lysmata lipkei Okuno and Fiedler, 2010; Chlorocurtis jactans (Nobili, 1904) and Rhynchocin...
Tintinnid diversity in the tropical West Pacific Ocean
LI Haibo, ZHANG Wuchang, ZHAO Yuan, ZHAO Li, DONG Yi, WANG Chaofeng, LIANG Chen, XIAO Tian
2018, 37(10): 218-228. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1148-x
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In order to investigate the tintinnid diversity, vertical distribution and latitudinal variation in the tropical West Pacific Ocean, water samples of different depths from surface to 200 m were collected along four transects. Totally 124 tintinnid sp...
Systematics, species diversity and new taxa of mesozooplankton in the West Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas: a brief compilation of monographs in China
WANG Yu, HUANG Zongguo, WANG Chunguang, HUANG Jiangshiou, LIU Zhensheng, XU Zhenzu, HUANG Jiaqi, CHEN Ruixiang, LIAN Guangshan, DAI Yanyu, LIN Jinghong, LIN Mao
2018, 37(10): 229-242. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1328-8
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Research and protection of biodiversity is generally started with species recognizing guided by achievement of cataloguing and illustration obtained through in situ investigation data accumulation and literature learning. Facing the shortage of taxon...