Paradoxipus orzeliscoides Kristensen & Higgins 1989
Description
88. Paradoxipus orzeliscoides Kristensen & Higgins, 1989
Paradoxipus orzeliscoides n. gen., n. sp. (Kristensen & Higgins 1989) Terra typica: Atlantic Ocean (USA, North America)
Atlantic Ocean:
• 27°30′N, 80°20.0′W / 27°30′N, 80°20′W; 5 m bsl: [FAO31] USA, Florida State, St. Lucie County, the channel of the Intracoastal Waterway in the Indian River near marker 175 about 1.6 km N of Fort Pierce, medium to coarse sand mixed with shell hash. Kristensen & Higgins (1989)
• 27°30.0′N, 80°17.0′W / 27°30′N, 80°17′W; 15 m bsl: [FAO31] Type Locality: USA, Florida State, St. Lucie County, N of Hutchinson Island, near Fort Pierce, coarse quartz sand mixed with shell hash (Amphioxus sand). Kristensen & Higgins (1989)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 2; total: 2.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO31: 2; total: 2.
Remarks: This is a monotypic genus known only from the type locality and neighbouring site. It is an interstitial and subtidal taxon.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Halechiniscidae
- Genus
- Paradoxipus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Arthrotardigrada
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Kristensen & Higgins
- Species
- orzeliscoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paradoxipus orzeliscoides Kristensen, 1989 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Kristensen, R. M. & Higgins, R. P. (1989) Marine Tardigrada from the southeastern United States coastal waters. I. Paradoxipus orzeliscoides n. gen., n. sp. (Arthrotardigrada: Halechinescidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 108, 262 - 282. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 3226344