《Hydromedusae from the Arctic in 2010 during the 4th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition CHINARE 4》.pdfVIP

Acta Oceanol. Sin., 2014, Vol. 33, No. 6, P. 95–102 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-014-0494-6 E-mail: hyxbe@263.net Hydromedusae from the Arctic in 2010 during the 4th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE 4) 1 2 1 1 2 2,3 WANG Chunguang , HUANG Jiaqi , XIANG Peng , WANG Yanguo , XU Zhenzu , GUO Donghui , LIN Mao1,4* 1 Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen 361005, China 2 College of Oceanography and Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China 3 State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China 4 Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Hangzhou 310058, China Received 10 March 2013; accepted 15 August 2013 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract Fifty-seven stations (48 grid stations and nine stratified stations) were sampled across the study region (67.000°–88.394°N, 152.500°–178.643°W) during the 4th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHI- NARE 4) from July to August 2010 by the icebreaker R/V Xuelong . A total of 24 species of Hydromedusae were identified from 130 zooplankton samples, of which seven species belonged to Automedusa, eight species to Anthomedusae, four species to Leptomedudae, and three species to Siphonophora. Catablema multicir- ratum Kishinouye, 1910, Bougainvillia bitentaculata Uchida, 1925, and Euphysa japonica (Maas, 1909) were recorded for the first time in the Arctic sea. In the present paper, 18 species of Hydromedusae were described and illustrated, of which three species were described for the first time in the Arctic sea, and 15 species were described for the first time in China. Key words: Arctic, Hydromedusae, taxonomy Citation: Wang Chunguang,