Published December 31, 2005
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Kiwa Macpherson & Jones & Segonzac 2005, n. gen.
- 1. Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CSIC), C. acc. Cala San Francesc 14, E- 17300 Blanes (Spain) macpherson @ ceab. csic. es
- 2. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing CA (USA) jones @ mbari. org
- 3. Ifremer, Centre de Brest, DEEP / Laboratoire Environnement Profond-Centob, BP 70, F- 29280 Plouzané (France) segonzac @ ifremer. fr
Description
Genus Kiwa n. gen.
TYPE AND ONLY SPECIES. — Kiwa hirsuta n. sp.
ETYMOLOGY. — The name refers to the goddess of the shellfish in the Polynesian mythology (Kiwa). The gender is feminine.
DIAGNOSIS. — Characters as for the family.
Notes
Published as part of Macpherson, Enrique, Jones, William & Segonzac, Michel, 2005, A new squat lobster family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, pp. 709-723 in Zoosystema 27 (4) on page 713, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689563
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Family
- Kiwaidae
- Genus
- Kiwa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Macpherson & Jones & Segonzac
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Kiwa Macpherson, Jones & Segonzac, 2005