The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41706188;the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract Nos XDA11030201 and XDB06010100;the Senior User Project of RV KEXUE under contract No.KEXUE2018G22;the Scientific and Technological Innovation Project financially supported by Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao)under contract No.2015ASKJ01
A new species of the family Pheronematidae is described in this study. Specimens were collected at Yap seamount and Caroline seamount in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Poliopogon distortus sp. nov. contains oval macramp...