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Three new species and a status revision of Hydroidomedusa (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the coast of China

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Three previously unknown species of Hydroidomedusa are described from plankton samples collected during oceanographic cruises undertaken along the coast of China. The Anthomedusae Ectopleura dongshanensis Xu, Chen & Chang sp. n. and Ectopleura brevinema Xu, Chen & Wang sp. n. were collected in Dongshan Bay, and the Leptomedusae species Eirene globogonia Xu & Chen sp. n. was found in the shallow waters of Hainan Island. All new species are described and illustrated here. The species Eirene chiaochowensis (Kao, Li , Chang & Li , 1958) stat. rev. is revised to a valid species. Keys to known species of the genera Ectopleura and Eirene are provided. All specimens were deposited at the Third Institute of Oceanography, China.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Professor Jia-qi Huang (Xiamen University, China) for digital image processing. We are grateful to the reviewers and the editors for their valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript.

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This study was funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFC3102401) and the Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science and Engineering, SOA (no. MESE-2019-03), and also supported by the Marine Biological Sample Museum Development (GASI-02-YPK-SW) and the Xiamen Bay Ecological Health Status Assessment (Preliminary Survey).

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  1. Third Institude of Oceanography, Ministry of Nature Resources, Xiamen, 361102, China

    Xiaoyin Chen, Peng Xiang, Lin Chang & Chunguang Wang

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xiaoyin Chen

  3. Ningbo Ocean World, Ningbo, 315000, Zhejiang, China

    Zhijie Hu

  4. China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100840, China

    Jia Yang

  5. College of Ocean and Earth Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China

    Zhenzu Xu

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Formal analysis, Xiao-Yin Chen; Funding acquisition, Chun-Guang Wang and Peng Xiang; Investigation, Lin Chang; Methodology, Xiao-Yin Chen, Zhen-Zu Xu and Chun-Guang Wang; Project administration, Chun-Guang Wang and Jia Yang; Resources, Xiao-Yin Chen, Chun-Guang Wang and Peng Xiang; Software, Xiao-Yin Chen and Zhi-jie Hu; Supervision, Peng Xiang; Validation, Chun-Guang Wang; Visualization, Xiao-Yin Chen and Zhi-jie Hu; Writing – original draft, Xiao-Yin Chen; Writing – review & editing, Xiao-Yin Chen, Zhi-jie Hu and Chun-Guang Wang. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Chen, X., Hu, Z., Xiang, P. et al. Three new species and a status revision of Hydroidomedusa (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the coast of China. Biologia (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-023-01572-7

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