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Phylogenetic position of the elusive thaliacean Doliopsis rubescens

Doliopsis rubescens was a very common species in the Mediterranean in 19 th and in the beginning of the 20 th century. In the past it was a very abundant species, so much that it formed large blooms at the coast of France. Afterwards it has become extremely rare with sporadic records in the Atlantic. D. rubescens was found in the Adriatic for the first time in 2016 and 2017, in the depth layer from 50 to 200 m. Two individuals preserved in ethanol were sequenced and the phylogenetic tree was constructed based on 18S rRNA gene sequence. The phylogenetic position of D. rubescens is discussed in relation to other Thaliacea and its morphological peculiarities.

phylogeny ; zooplankton ; Thaliacea ; Doliopsis rubescens

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