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A new bathypelagic species of the genus Heterokrohnia, H. longicaudata, is described and separated from the other five previously described Heterokrohnia species, H. mirabilis Ritter-Záhony 1911, H. bathybia Marumo and Kitou 1966, H. involucrum Dawson 1968, H. longidentata Kapp and Hagen 1985 and H. fragilis Kapp and Hagen 1985. The new specimen has been found at great depths (2,350m–1,000m) near Elephant Island, in the atlantic sector north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Hagen, W., Kapp, H. Heterokrohnia longicaudata, a new species of chaetognatha from Antarctic waters. Polar Biol 5, 181–183 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00441698
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00441698