Image: Dendrogramma enigmatica sp. nov., holotype

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Description: The holotype of Dendrogramma enigmatica, a species discovered off the south-east coast of Australia in 1986. In 2014, Just, Møbjerg and Olesen published a paper that said the species could not be classified in any existing phylum.
Title: Dendrogramma enigmatica sp. nov., holotype
Credit: Dendrogramma, New Genus, with Two New Non-Bilaterian Species from the Marine Bathyal of Southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis) – with Similarities to Some Medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara. PLOS ONE, September 03, 2014. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102976
Author: Jean Just, Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jørgen Olesen
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