WoRMS taxon details
Neocentrophyes Higgins, 1969
265003 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:265003)
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Genus
Neocentrophyes intermedius Higgins, 1969 (type by original designation)
marine
Higgins, R. P. (1969). Indian Ocean Kinorhyncha: 2. Neocentrophyidae, a new homalorhagid family. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 82: 113-128. [details] Available for editors 
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Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek νέος neos, new, young, from Greek κέντρον kentron, centre, and from Greek...
Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek νέος neos, new, young, from Greek κέντρον kentron, centre, and from Greek phyo, let develop, made by nature, a common suffix of homalorhagid genera, and referred to the “juvenile characters” in the adult stage, derived from Zelinka’s genus Centrophyes described from juvenile stages. [details]
Neuhaus, B. (2024). World Kinorhyncha Database. Neocentrophyes Higgins, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265003 on 2024-04-24
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original description
Higgins, R. P. (1969). Indian Ocean Kinorhyncha: 2. Neocentrophyidae, a new homalorhagid family. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 82: 113-128. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
[request] basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
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Etymology The genus name was derived from Greek νέος neos, new, young, from Greek κέντρον kentron, centre, and from Greek phyo, let develop, made by nature, a common suffix of homalorhagid genera, and referred to the “juvenile characters” in the adult stage, derived from Zelinka’s genus Centrophyes described from juvenile stages. [details]
