2024/12/24 by Hiroshi Fukuda, Hirofumi Kubo · 1 voice · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
paper · doi:10.1080/13235818.2024.2436388
Ovassiminea hayasei n. sp. is described from mangrove swamps in Iriomote and Ishigaki Islands, of the Yaeyama Islands at the southwestern part of the Ryūkyū Archipelago, Okinawa, Japan. This is the northernmost record among recent species of the genus Ovassiminea Thiele, 1927, which is distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Western Pacific. The new species is known to be restricted to extremely narrow ranges and is evaluated as vulnerable in red lists by the governments of Japan and Okinawa Prefecture. A list of all available (five recent and five fossil) species names of Ovassiminea hitherto described, with synonymies, is also given as an Appendix.