Published November 25, 2021
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A new species of Microcosmus (Tunicata: Ascidiacea: Bolteniidae) from the Sea of Okhotsk
- 1. Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Geographical Institute of the Far- Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 6 Partizanskaya St., Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 683000, Russia
- 2. Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, 18 Naberezhnaya St., Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 683000, Russia
Description
A large solitary ascidian Microcosmus armatus sp. nov., described from the Sea of Okhotsk, represents the first record of the genus Microcosmus Heller, 1877 in the cold waters of the Northwestern Pacific. The genus belongs to the family Bolteniidae formerly known as Pyuridae.