Persoonaster, Thuy & Numberger-Thuy & Gale, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5620.3.6 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EF849A6B-B51B-48A5-8AE2-344045851811 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15297075 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C9D638-FFAE-987B-FF6C-FD372A5AFB8D |
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Plazi |
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Persoonaster |
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Genus Persoonaster nov.
Type and only known species: Mesophiomusium kianiae Thuy, 2005 , by present designation.
Diagnosis: Small aspiduriellid with very large, thick adoral shields; oral shields absent or inconspicuous; lateral arm plates of rounded rectangular outline, with a flat to slightly concave outer surface; very large dorsal and ventral contact surfaces with the opposite lateral arm plate and very small vertebral space; spine articulations very small; large, ventralwards pointing tentacle notch.
Etymology: Genus named after Dominique, Fabienne and Julius Persoone, for producing chocolates that helped sweeten moments of frustration during the present study.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Myophiuroida |
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Metophiurida |
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Euryophiurida |
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