Kinorhyncha taxon details
original description
Higgins, R. P. (1969). Indian Ocean Kinorhyncha: 2. Neocentrophyidae, a new homalorhagid family. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 82: 113-128. [details] Available for editors
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek νέος neos, new, young, from Greek κέντρον kentron, centre, and from Greek phyo, let develop, made by nature, a common suffix of homalorhagid genera, and referred to the “juvenile characters” in the adult stage, derived from Zelinka’s genus Centrophyes described from juvenile stages. [details]
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