Original Paper

Taxonomic notes on Anthomedusae (Cnidaria) from the south-central South China Sea Ⅲ: Family Pandeidae

  • Lianggen Wang ,
  • Feiyan Du ,
  • Zhenzu Xu ,
  • Jiaqi Huang ,
  • Donghui Guo
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  • 1South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Science, Guangzhou 510300, China 2Key Laboratory of Fishery Ecology and Environment of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510300, China 3College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China

Online published: 2020-01-24

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This work was supported by the Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China (2018FY100105), the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (2018A030313037), the Ministry of Agriculture Major Funding Projects (NFZX2013), Global Climate Change and Ocean Atmosphere Interaction Research: The Marine Biological Sample Museum Upgrade and Expansion (GASI-01-02-04) and Biological Classification System Research.

Abstract

The present paper reviews all 14 genera and 46 species belonging to the family Pandeidae from the China seas. Two new species, Leuckartiara ruberiverruca Xu, Guo & Du, sp. nov. and Merga longicosta Xu, Huang & Wang, sp. nov., from the south-central South China Sea, are described and illustrated. Keys to the known genera of family Pandeidae in the China seas and to all known species of the genus Merga are provided. Other data are briefly summarized to the list of species presented in the family Pandeidae in the China seas. The type species were deposited at the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Science.

Cite this article

Lianggen Wang , Feiyan Du , Zhenzu Xu , Jiaqi Huang , Donghui Guo . Taxonomic notes on Anthomedusae (Cnidaria) from the south-central South China Sea Ⅲ: Family Pandeidae[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2020 , 45(1) : 15 -23 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.202002

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