Tanarctus heterodactylus Renaud-Mornant 1980
Description
135. Tanarctus heterodactylus Renaud-Mornant, 1980
Tanarctus heterodactylus (Renaud-Mornant 1980)
Terra typica: Atlantic Ocean (USA, North America)
Atlantic Ocean:
• 61°17′42′′N, 08°32′18′′W; 104–260 m bsl: [FAO27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, shell gravel, coarse shell gravel, fine carbonate sand, carbonate sand, or fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2001)
• 38°48′N, 75°04′W; 4 m bsl: [FAO21] USA, Delaware State, Sussex County, mouth of Delaware Bay, The Shears, sublittoral sandy bar. Hummon (1994)
• 34°07.3′N, 75°57.7′W / 34°07′N, 75°58′W; 400 m bsl: [FAO31] Type locality: USA, North Carolina State, bathyal or abyssal depth, surface of sand, fine sand with 17% clay. Renaud-Mornant (1980)
• 4°20′S to 4°50′S, 36°00′W to 37°15′W [04°35′S, 36°38′W]; 20–100 m bsl: [FAO41] Brazil, continental shelf off Ceará State and Rio Grande Do Norte State, fine to coarse quartz sand with detritus, and terrigenous mud. da Rocha et al. (2013)
• 8°25′10′′S to 8°25′20′′S, 34°55′00′′W [08°25′S, 34°58′W]; 0 m bsl: [FAO41] Brazil, Pernambuco State, Cupe beach, biogenic gravel or sandy-muddy sediment. da Rocha et al. (2013)
• 23°03′S, 43°17.3′W / 23°03′S, 43°17′W; 22 m bsl: [FAO41] Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, continental shelf off Rio de Janeiro, coarse sand. Renaud-Mornant (1980)
Indian Ocean:
• 12°53′,05S, 45°16′,03E [12°53′S, 45°18′E]; 275–400 m bsl: [FAO51] Comoros Archipelago, Mozambique Channel, muddy sand. Renaud-Mornant (1984a)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 6, Indian Ocean: 1; total: 7.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO21: 1, FAO27: 1, FAO31: 1, FAO41: 3, FAO51: 1; total: 7.
Remarks: In general this is a deep sea species mainly reported from below 200 m bsl. However, there are also reports at much shallower depths (0 to <100 m bsl) from off the coasts of Brazil and Delaware (USA).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Halechiniscidae
- Genus
- Tanarctus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Arthrotardigrada
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Renaud-Mornant
- Species
- heterodactylus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tanarctus heterodactylus Renaud-Mornant, 1980 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Hansen, J. G., Jorgensen, A. & Kristensen, R. M. (2001) Preliminary studies of the tardigrade fauna of the Faroe Bank. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 240, 385 - 393. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1078 / 0044 - 5231 - 00046
- Hummon, W. D. (1994) Trans- and cis-Atlantic distributions of three marine heterotardigrades. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 113 (3), 333 - 342. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 3226627
- Renaud-Mornant, J. (1984 a) Halechiniscidae (Heterotardigrada) de la campagne Benthedi, canal du Mozambique. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Serie 4 e, 6 (1), 67 - 88.