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A New Species of the Genus Electra (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from Southern Oman, Arabian Sea

A New Species of Bryozoa from Southern Oman

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Abstract

A new cheilostome bryozoan Electra omanensis n. sp. is described in Southern Oman (Dhofar Region, Arabian Sea) and is also the first description of any bryozoan from this area. The new species morphologically most resembles Electra indica (Menon and Nair (Mar Biol Ass India 17:553–579, 1975), but differs in (1) colony shape – colonies consist of long narrow branching strips, and (2) in the shape of the gymnocystal spines. The combination of these features is sufficiently distinctive and allows discriminating the new species from all other known species in this genus. Genetic analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal genes also support separate species status for this species of Electra.

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Acknowledgements

We are deeply indebted to Dr P.D. Taylor, the Natural History Museum London, for help in work with BNHM collection, and Dr S. Louis, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, for sending us Electra indica samples. J.P. Cáceres-Chamizo, Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, sorted samples from Oman. A. Ostrovsky thanks FWF (grants P19337-B17 and P22696-B17), Austria, and RFBR (grant 10-04-00085a), Russia, for financial support. The work supported with DFG (Scha355/27) to E.A. Nikulina.

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  1. Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, D-24837, Schleswig, Germany

    Elena A. Nikulina

  2. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaja nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    Andrew N. Ostrovsky (Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, Geozentrum)

  3. Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Andrew N. Ostrovsky (Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, Geozentrum)

  4. Department of Marine Science and Fisheries, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, 34, Al-Khod, 123, Sultanate of Oman

    Michel Claereboudt

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Nikulina, E.A., Ostrovsky, A.N., Claereboudt, M. (2013). A New Species of the Genus Electra (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from Southern Oman, Arabian Sea. In: Ernst, A., Schäfer, P., Scholz, J. (eds) Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, vol 143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_14

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