Abstract
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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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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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 79, 1277–1286 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-023-01572-7
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