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## Abstract Twenty-one nominal species of __Muricea__ have been reported in the Eastern Pacific with nine of them reported in the Mexican Pacific. We describe three new species of __Muricea: Muriceaambarae__**sp. nov.** and __Muriceacacao__**sp. nov.**, from rocky reefs on the central and the northern Gulf of California and the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, and __Muriceamolinai__**sp. nov.**, from the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur. __Muriceaambarae__**sp. nov.** and __M.cacao__**sp. nov.** are taxonomically allied to the nominal species __Muriceafruticosa__ Verrill, 1869 due to the morphological similarity of colony growth patterns and the phylogenetic closeness based on the mitochondrial MutS gene (mtMutS); but differ mainly in the calyx form and composition of sclerites. The main morphological differences between the new __Muricea__ species are in their sclerite forms and color; __M.ambarae__**sp. nov.** has orange-colored colonies, thin leaf spindles and tuberculated blunt spindles, while __M.cacao__**sp. nov.** has dark brown colored colonies, strong spinous spindles and an absence of tuberculated blunt spindles. __Muriceamolinai__**sp. nov.** is phylogeneticall

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Author

Osvaldo Hernández; Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez; Carolina Galván-Tirado; Carlos Sánchez

Publisher

Pensoft Publishers

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)