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FIGURE 2. A in Paraleptopentacta, a new Mediterranean and north-west Atlantic sea cucumber genus, with the first record of P. tergestina n. comb. (Echinodermata Dendrochirotida: Cucumariidae) from the north-western Algerian coast

  • 1. Protection, Valorization of Coastal Marine Resources and Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Department of Marine Science and Aquaculture, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Life, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University-Mostaganem, PO Box 227, Route nationale N° 11, Kharrouba, 27000, Mostaganem, Algeria.
  • 2. School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P/Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa.
  • 3. Protection, Valorization of Coastal Marine Resources and Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Department of Marine Science and Aquaculture, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Life, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University-Mostaganem, PO Box 227, Route nationale N° 11, Kharrouba, 27000, Mostaganem, Algeria. & ihcene.khodja.etu@univ-mosta.dz; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3905-974X

Description

FIGURE 2. A. Paraleptopentacta (n. gen.) tergestina n. comb. individual preserved in ethanol; B. Living specimen displaying its clear, dendritic tentacles and elongated podia; C. Stretching and twisting of a live specimen in the aquarium. Scale bar = 1 cm.

Notes

Published as part of Mezali, Karim, Thandar, Ahmed S. & Khodja, Ihcene, 2020, Paraleptopentacta, a new Mediterranean and north-west Atlantic sea cucumber genus, with the first record of P. tergestina n. comb. (Echinodermata Dendrochirotida: Cucumariidae) from the north-western Algerian coast, pp. 199-210 in Zootaxa 4860 (2) on page 206, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4537555

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