Description

Type material. Six female specimens (holotype and 5 paratypes; no males found) in polyp-surrounded cysts on a single colony of an halaxonian alcyonacean (“ gorgonian ”) Echinogorgia sp. (Plexauridae; determined by Prof. T. N. Molodstova) in a jar from the collections of the Coastal Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, collected at 21 º 11 ’ 43.3 ’’ N, 120 º 51 ’ 47.3 ’’ E, depth 227 m, Bashi Channel, south-eastern Taiwan, and fixed in absolute ethanol. The holotype and 4 paratypes are deposited in the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University under registration numbers Mg. 1220 (holotype) and Mg. 1221 (paratypes). The other paratype (no. ASIZCR 000327) is deposited in the Biodiversity Research Museum, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Maxillopoda

Order: Laurida

Family: Synagogidae

Genus: Gorgonolaureus

Species: Gorgonolaureus bicornutus