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- Title
New records of marine Tardigrada in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Authors
VILLORA-MORENO, SANTIAGO; GRIMALDI, SUSANNA DE ZIO
- Abstract
Meiofauna from Chafarinas archipelago (western Mediterranean, N. Africa) were studied, and marine Tardigrada were identified to species level. A total of 15 species, belonging to families Stygarctidae, Halechiniscidac (Subfamilies Halechiniscinae, Florarctinae, Styraconyxinae and Tanarctinae), Batillipedidae, and Echiniscoididae, were found for the first time from the Alboran Sea and southwestern Mediterranean area. Four species and one subspecies are new records for the Mediterranean Sea: I'ioractus acer, F. asper, P. stellatus, Actinarctus doryphorus and Echiniscoides sigismundi hispaniensis. The male of Floractus stellatus, previously unknown to science, is described. Many species have been recorded for the first time in different sedimentary environments, such as midlittoral pools, very shallow gravels, pools in a mixed rocky environment or between Posidonia oceanica meadows, 'Amphioxus' gravels, and coastal detritic.
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1996, Vol 116, Issue 1/2, p149
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1996.tb02340.x