ABSTRACT
We describe a new, morphologically distinct species of Penion found off the Three Kings Islands, Middlesex and King banks, and Cape Reinga, in the far north of New Zealand.
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:573BCBA0-1FFB-490D-8AEF-AC156354E48B
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the late Hunter and Molly Seelye and Peter Jamieson for the holotype and paratypes from NW of Cape Reinga. We thank Sadie Mills (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) for the distribution map and the loan of the small adult male paratype. We also thank Yuri Kantor (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) for comments on Penion radulae, Jean-Claude Stahl (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) for photography and Kerry Walton for assistance with preparation of the plate. We thank Hiroshi Fukuda (Okayama University) and the editor Don Colgan (Australian Museum) for their helpful comments.
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ORCID
Simon F. K. Hills http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9115-0375
Felix Vaux http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2882-7996