Pentagone crozeti, a new species of elasipodid holothurian from abyssal depths off the Crozet Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2096, 2009, Pages 484-488

  Cross, Ian A ^a   Gebruk, Andrey ^b   Rogacheva, Antonina ^b   Billett, David S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Elasipodida; Elpidiidae; Holothuroidea; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ELASIPODIDA; ELPIDIIDAE; HOLOTHURIA; HOLOTHUROIDEA;

EID: 66749116632     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.30     Document Type: Article

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