Styraconyx kristenseni subsp. neocaledonensis Renaud-Mornant 1981
Description
112. Styraconyx kristenseni neocaledonensis Renaud-Mornant, 1981d
Styraconyx sargassi Thulin, 1942 (Renaud-Mornant 1967b)
Styraconyx kristenseni neocaledonensis n. ssp. (Renaud-Mornant 1981d) Terra typica: Coral Sea (New Caledonia)
Coral Sea:
• 22°02′54′′S, 165°59′16′′E; 7–8 m bsl: [FAO71] Type Locality: New Caledonia, Saint Vincent Bay, “Coupe V 13 A de la radiale, coarse sand, gray sand or sediment in seagrass. Renaud-Mornant (1967b, 1981d)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Coral Sea: 1; total: 1.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO71: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: This subspecies is known only from the type locality (for a more detailed discussion see Kristensen & Higgins 1984a). Interestingly, neither D’Addabbo Gallo et al. (1989) in their key to the genus nor Chang & Rho (1998) in their discussion of the genus mentioned this subspecies.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Halechiniscidae
- Genus
- Styraconyx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Arthrotardigrada
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Renaud-Mornant
- Species
- neocaledonensis
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Styraconyx kristenseni subsp. neocaledonensis Renaud-Mornant, 1981 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Renaud-Mornant, J. (1981 d) Tardigrades marins (Arthrotardigrada) du Pacifique Sud. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Serie 4 e, 3, 799 - 813.
- Thulin, G. (1942) Ein neuer mariner Tardigrad. Meddel Goteborg Museum of Zoology, 99, 1 - 10.
- Renaud-Mornant, J. (1967 b) Tardigrades de la Baie Saint-Vincent, Nouvelle-Caledonie. In: Expedition francaise sur les recifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, 12, 103 - 118.
- Kristensen, R. M. & Higgins, R. P. (1984 a) Revision of Styraconyx (Tardigrada: Halechiniscidae) with description of two new species from Disko Bay, West Greenland. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 391, 1 - 40.
- D'Addabbo Gallo, M., Morone de Lucia, M. R. & Grimaldi de Zio, S. (1989) Two new species of the genus Styraconyx (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 30, 17 - 33.