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Breedy, O.; Rouse, G. W.; Stabbins, A.; Cortés, J.; Cordes, E. E. (2019). New records of Swiftia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia) from off the Pacific Costa Rican margin, including a new species from methane seeps. Zootaxa. 4671(3): 407-419.
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Breedy, O.; Rouse, G. W.; Stabbins, A.; Cortés, J.; Cordes, E. E.
2019
New records of <em>Swiftia</em> (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia) from off the Pacific Costa Rican margin, including a new species from methane seeps
Zootaxa
4671(3): 407-419
Publication
Exploration of the deep sea off the Pacific margin of Costa Rica has resulted in the discovery of a number of new species
and reports for the region. Here, we report on the occurrence of the octocoral genus Swiftia, and describe a new species
collected by the Alvin submersible off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The new species has been observed at around 1000
m depth, growing on authigenic carbonates near methane seeps. Swiftia sahlingi sp. nov. is characterised by having bright
red colonies that are with limited branching, with slightly raised polyp-mounds, thin coenenchyme mainly composed of
long warty spindles, and conspicuous plates. A molecular phylogenetic analysis supports the differences between this new
taxon and the closest Swiftia species. The new species represents the first record of the genus from Costa Rica and in fact
for the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
East Pacific
East Tropical Pacific
East Tropical Pacific
Molecular systematics, Molecular biology
Systematics, Taxonomy
Systematics, Taxonomy
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Swiftia sahlingi Breedy et al., 2019 (original description)
