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Angursa Pollock 1979

Description

Genus Angursa Pollock, 1979 Emended diagnosis

Styraconyxidae with slender body; median cirrus present; papillate primary clavae; flat secondary and tertiary clavae; leg I sensory organs present; legs II and III sensory organs occasionally present; leg IV sensory organs papillate; cirri E near caudal margin of body; each digit terminates in claw with two divergent points; peduncles present at base of external digits; seminal receptacles present; terminal positioned anus occasionally with anal papillae.

Notes

Published as part of Fujimoto, Shinta & Hansen, Jesper Guldberg, 2019, Revision of Angursa (Arthrotardigrada: Styraconyxidae) with the description of a new species from Japan, pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 510 on page 3, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.510, http://zenodo.org/record/2616378

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Styraconyxidae
Genus
Angursa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Arthrotardigrada
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Pollock
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Angursa Pollock, 1979 sec. Fujimoto & Hansen, 2019

References

  • Pollock L. W. 1979. Angursa bicuspis n. g., n. sp., a new marine arthrotardigrade from the western North Atlantic. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 98: 558 - 562. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3225907