A new genus of freshwater hoplonemertean from New Zealand |
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| Authors: | J MOORE RAY GIBSON |
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| Institution: | Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge;Department of Biology, Liverpool Polytechnic, Byrom Street, Liverpool |
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| Abstract: | Potamonemertes percivali , a new freshwater hoplonemertean from the Selwyn River, New Zealand, is described. It is more closely related to the antipodean prosorhochmid supralittoral and terrestrial genera Acteonemertes and Geonemertes than to the only other freshwater hoplonemertean genus Prostoma,* but possesses a distinctive combination of characters which establish it as a new genus and species. |
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