Description of three species of ophioplinthacids, including a new species, from a deep seamount in the Northwest Pacific Ocean

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Biodiversity and Conservation

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Nomenclatural acts

Results

Systematics

Lateral arm plate characteristics

Phylogeny

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Supplemental Information 1

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11566/supp-1

MW284978 to MW284982 sequence data

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11566/supp-3

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Wanying Chen conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Jieying Na analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Dongsheng Zhang conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

DNA Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of DNA sequences:

The COI sequences described here are available at GenBank: MW284978 to MW284982.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

DNA sequences of taxa used in phylogenetic analysis are available in the Supplemental File.

All specimens (RSIO56013, RSIO56014, RSIO56060, RSIO56057, RSIO56058) were deposited in the Sample Repository of the Second Institute of Oceanography (RSIO), Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China.

New Species Registration

The following information was supplied regarding the registration of a newly described species:

Publication LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A48B7301-0D4B-4280-BF81-639689F923F6.

Ophioplinthaca grandisquama n. sp. LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8509E6DB-E902-4A71-9339-EA40725DD688.

Funding

This work is funded by the National Natural Science Foudation of China (42076135), the China Ocean Mineral Resources R & D Association (DY135-E2-2-03 and DY135-E2-2-06); the Project of State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography (SOEDZZ2002). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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