Abstract

isolated from mussel-farming waters near Qingdao, China, are described based on living and protargol-impregnated specimens. Morphologically, the new species can be distinguished from its known congeners by itselongate body shape, narrow oral field, having fewer dorsal kineties and caudal cirri, more marginal cirri, anddifferentiated pretransverse cirri. The identification as a new species is firmly supported by the sequences of thesmall subunit ribosomal rRNA (SSU rRNA) gene, compared with other known

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