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Dipodarctus susannae Jorgensen, Boesgaard, Mobjerg & Kristensen 2014
Description
44. Dipodarctus susannae Jørgensen, Boesgaard, Møbjerg & Kristensen, 2014
Dipodarctus susannae nov. sp. (Jørgensen et al. 2014)
Terra typica: Tasman Sea (Australia)
Tasman Sea:
• 30°56′S, 153°06′E; 18–20 m bsl: [FAO81] Type Locality: Australia, New South Wales State, S of South West Rocks, 3 km of the coast from the base of Smoky Cape Lighthouse, Fish Rock Island, Fish Rock Cave, coarse coralligenous sand rich in detritus. Jørgensen et al. (2014)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Tasman Sea: 1; total: 1.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO81: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: This recently described subtidal species, known only from the type locality in a marine cave, is a potential troglobiont.
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 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Halechiniscidae
- Genus
- Dipodarctus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Arthrotardigrada
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Jorgensen, Boesgaard, Mobjerg & Kristensen
- Species
- susannae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dipodarctus susannae Jorgensen, 2014 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Jorgensen, A., Boesgaard, T. M., Mobjerg, N. & Kristensen, R. M. (2014) The tardigrade fauna of Australian marine caves: with descriptions of nine new species of Arthrotardigrada. Zootaxa, 3802 (4), 401 - 443. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3802.4.1