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Batillipes roscoffensis Kristensen 1978
Description
25. Batillipes roscoffensis Kristensen, 1978a
Batillipes roscoffensis nov. sp. (Kristensen 1978a)
Terra typica: Celtic Sea (France, Europe)
Celtic Sea:
• 48°43′N, 04°00′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO27] Type locality: France, Brittany Region, D’Aber [L’Aber] de Roscoff, Leptosynapta galliennei biotope. Kristensen (1978a)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Celtic Sea: 1; total: 1.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO27: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: This species has a caudal groove replacing the caudal spike, and a unique dorsal sculpture only visible with SEM (see Kristensen 1978a). The species is known only from the type locality where just three specimens were collected.
Notes
Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 4037 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Batillipedidae
- Genus
- Batillipes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Arthrotardigrada
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Kristensen
- Species
- roscoffensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Batillipes roscoffensis Kristensen, 1978 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Kristensen, R. M. (1978 a) Notes on marine Heterotardigrades. 1. Description of two new Batillipes species, using the electron microscope. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 200, 1 - 17.