Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.20 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9085D431-B770-46AF-95D7-7A9AFBBFD8D6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6108173 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F287BF-5228-DC68-4BFA-FF18FA0AFE26 |
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Plazi |
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Genus Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844 View in CoL
Type-species. Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844
The study of the Lizard Island material allowed to provide additional information to the still confused situation of the actual diversity of the genus Owenia in NE Australia. Ford & Hutchings (2005) stated that “The material from Lizard Island exhibit a combination of features of the three species described in the article … The nature of the material from Lizard Island could not be resolved and additional material is needed to resolve this status.” Thus, our examination of this and newly collected material has revealed that none of the three species reported by Ford & Hutchings (2005) is apparently present in Lizard Island, belonging, in turn, to two formally undescribed species.
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