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Pseudostygarctus galloae Hansen, Kristensen & Jorgensen 2012

Description

165. Pseudostygarctus galloae Hansen, Kristensen & Jørgensen, 2012

Pseudostygarctus galloae nov. sp. (Hansen et al. 2012)

Terra typica: Arabian Sea (Saudi Arabia)

Arabian Sea:

27°47′N, 48°53′E; 0 m bsl: [FAO51] Type Locality: Saudi Arabia, Eastern Province, Persian Gulf, Ras Al Tanajib, intertidal, mixture of carbonate sand and quartz grains. Hansen et al. (2012)

Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Arabian Sea: 1; total: 1.

Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO51: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: This is a recently described species known only from the type locality.

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 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519

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References

  • Hansen, J. G., Kristensen, R. M. & Jorgensen, A. (2012) The armoured marine tardigrades (Arthrotardigrada, Tardigrada). The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Scientia Danica, Series B, Biologica, 2, 1 - 91.