Dantya Kornicker & Cohen 1978

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1565.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5095958
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scientific name	Dantya Kornicker & Cohen 1978
status

Composition and distribution. The genus includes eight species: one species from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize ( D. magnifica Kornicker & Cohen 1978 View in CoL ), four species from the western Indian Ocean ( D. fossula Kornicker 1983 View in CoL , D. benthedi Kornicker 1983 View in CoL , D. piercei Kornicker 1983 View in CoL , D. dux Kornicker 1998 View in CoL in Kornicker & Thomassin 1998), one species from the Southwest Florida shelf ( D. heardi Kornicker 1986 View in CoL ), D. ferox Kornicker & Iliffe 1989d View in CoL from a sea cave on the island of Niue, central South Pacific, and D. tryx Kornicker 1994 View in CoL from off Southeast Australia. A key to species of the genus is presented in Kornicker and Thomassin 1998. A juvenile collected herein on the Great Bahama Bank is left in open nomenclature as Dantya sp. A .