Stephanauge prima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Metridioidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Classis: Hexacorallia
Ordo: Actiniaria
Subordo: Enthemonae
Superfamilia: Metridioidea

Familia: Hormathiidae
Genus: Stephanauge
Species: Stephanauge prima

Name

Stephanauge prima Targino, De Melo & Gomes, 2025

Holotype: MNRJ 9080 (one specimen), South Atlantic Ocean, Potiguar Basin, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, station MT83 (04°28'21S, 36°24'45W), May 4, 2011, 1950 m.
Paratypes: MNRJ 9078 (one specimen), South Atlantic Ocean, Potiguar Basin, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, station MT83-2 (04°27'01S, 36°25'36W), May 21, 2011, 2123 m. MNRJ 9091 (one specimen), South Atlantic Ocean, Potiguar Basin, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, station MT84 (04°25'49S, 36°37'22W), May 6, 2011, 1964 m. MOUFPE-CNI 875 ( one specimen), South Atlantic Ocean, Potiguar Basin, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, station MT84 (04°25'49S, 36°37'22W), May 6, 2011, 1964 m. LC 153 (one specimen attached on Diacria sp.), South Atlantic Ocean, Potiguar Basin, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, station MT85 (04°21'21S, 36°44'16W), May 6, 2011, 2057 m.
Type locality: Potiguar Basin, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Etymology: From latin “prima” = the first, so named because this is the first species of the genus recorded on the South Atlantic and in the XXI century.

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