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Five Sarsiellidae ostracods (Crustacea: Myodocopida) from the South Coast of Korea (East China Sea)
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Karanovic, I and Soh, H-Y, Five Sarsiellidae ostracods (Crustacea: Myodocopida) from the South Coast of Korea (East China Sea), Zootaxa, 3947, (4) pp. 451-488. ISSN 1175-5326 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2015 Magnolia Press
DOI: doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3947.4.1
Abstract
The East China Sea is part of the Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific zoogeographic province and, as such, has a high
biodiversity and many tropical and subtropical biotic elements. Nevertheless, many invertebrate groups from this area remain
poorly studied. Ostracods are one of them, especially those belonging to the subclass Myodocopa. In this paper we
provide the first data on a diverse myodocopid family, Sarsiellidae, not only for the East China Sea, but also for Korea.
Five species are reported in this paper from three Korean islands (Jeju, Chuja, and Maemul), and they are only a part of
the ostracods collected during this study, indicating a high diversity of the group in this region. Three new species, Eurypylus
koreanus sp. nov., Eusarsiella hanguk sp. nov., and Sarsiella nereis sp. nov., clearly stand apart from their respective
congeners, mostly by prominent shell characters but also by details of the soft part morphology. Their affinity though
clearly indicates a close connection of the region with the more southern zoogeographical realms, especially Central Indo
Pacific and partly Temperate Australasia. Two species previously known from Japan (north part of the Sea of Japan and
southeastern part of the Pacific Coast of Japan), Sarsiella japonica Hiruta, 1977 and S. misakiensis Kajiyama, 1912, are
redescribed. Based on 11 newly obtained COI sequences we construct a preliminary phylogenetic tree, which supports
previous hypotheses based on the morphological data, that Eusarsiella Cohen & Kornicker, 1975 is a polyphyletic taxon.
With the maps of species distribution provided for each of the three genera, we give an overview of their current zoogeography,
and clearly indicate areas that have no data, mostly due to the lack of investigation.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | biodiversity, COI, Ostracoda, phylogeny, taxonomy, zoogeography |
Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Evolutionary biology |
Research Field: | Animal systematics and taxonomy |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Karanovic, I (Professor Ivana Karanovic) |
ID Code: | 105954 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | IMAS Research and Education Centre |
Deposited On: | 2016-01-21 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-19 |
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