Angursa antarctica Villora-Moreno 1998
Description
89. Angursa antarctica Villora-Moreno, 1998
Angursa antarctica sp. nov. (Villora-Moreno 1998)
Terra typica: Scotia Sea (Antarctica)
Scotia Sea:
• 62°30′S, 60°34′W; 416 m bsl: [FAO48] Antarctica, N of South Shetland Islands, Livingston Island, station L 16, heterometric sediment (sandy mud with gravels, medium diameter 0.06 mm, poorly sorted sediment). Villora-Moreno (1998)
• 62°30′S, 60°34′W; 352 m bsl: [FAO48] Type Locality: Antarctica, N of South Shetland Islands, Livingston Island, station L 15, heterometric sediment (sandy mud with gravels, medium diameter 0.06 mm, poorly sorted sediment). Villora-Moreno (1998)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Scotia Sea: 2; total: 2.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO48: 2; total: 2.
Remarks: This is a deep sea species known only from the type locality and a neighbouring site.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Halechiniscidae
- Genus
- Angursa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Arthrotardigrada
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Villora-Moreno
- Species
- antarctica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Angursa antarctica Villora-Moreno, 1998 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Villora-Moreno, S. (1998) Deep-sea Tardigrada from South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) with description of Angursa antarctica sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada, Halechiniscidae). Polar Biology, 19, 336 - 341. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 003000050255