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A Whole Mount In Situ Hybridization Method for the Gastropod Mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis
Published on: March 15, 2016
Three new species of Gastropoda from the Red Sea deep waters
Antonio Bonfitto1, Marco Taviani2, Bruno Sabelli3
1Department of Biological; Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA); University of Bologna; Bologna; Italy. antonio.bonfitto@unibo.it.
Abstract:
The discovery of three gastropod species (Mollusca) in biogenic sediments dredged from mesophotic and bathyal habitats off the coasts of Yemen and Sudan marks a noteworthy contribution to the inventory of marine biodiversity in the poorly studied Red Sea deep waters. These newly described species, Marginodostomia alibardiisp. nov., Miralda coronatasp. nov. and Iphitus marisrubrisp. nov., are currently known only from empty shells. The identification of adult Iphitus specimens in the Red Sea is particularly remarkable, given that members of this genus have previously been reported only from cold-water bathyal environments, in stark contrast to the present-day warm deep-water conditions of the Red Sea.
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