Published December 31, 2015 | Version v1
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Lindia gravitata Lie-Pettersen 1905

Description

Lindia gravitata (Lie-Pettersen, 1905)

The specimens seen showed a bit more distinct pseudosegmentation of the body than those used in its redescription (De Smet 2005); habitus and trophi otherwise identical. Males present, similar in habitus to females, but smaller (~150 µm), and without trophi.

The species was found in psammon from the Costa Brava, Côte d’Azur, and Tyrrhenian Sea, at 50 m to 3.5 km off shore, and depths varying from 15 up to 30 m; June, July, September, October; water temperature 16−21 °C. Previous records are from the Norwegian Sea at Bergen, Norway (Lie-Pettersen 1905), the North Sea: Kieler Bucht, Germany (Schulz 1936/37), Eastern Scheldt, The Netherlands (De Smet 2005), Tyrrhenian Sea, Elba Island (De Smet 2007), and Skagerrak, Sweden (Willems et al. 2009).

Notes

Published as part of De Smet, Willem H., 2015, Rotifera from the Mediterranean Sea, with description of ten new species, pp. 151-196 in Zootaxa 4028 (2) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240556

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lindiidae
Genus
Lindia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ploima
Phylum
Rotifera
Scientific name authorship
Lie-Pettersen
Species
gravitata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lindia gravitata Lie-Pettersen, 1905 sec. Smet, 2015

References

  • Lie-Pettersen, O. J. (1905) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der marinen Radertier-Fauna Norwegens. Bergens Museums Aarbog, 10, 1 - 44, pls. 1 - 2.
  • De Smet, W. H. (2005) Redescription of Lindia gravitata with comments on L. tecusa (Rotifera: Monogononta: Lindiidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85, 1467 - 1473. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315405012658
  • Schulz, E. (1936 / 37) Das Farbstreifen-Sandwatt und seine Fauna, ein okologische-biozonotische Untersuchung an der Nordsee. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 1, 359 - 378.
  • De Smet, W. H. (2007) Description of two new species of Myersinella (Rotifera: Monogononta: Dicranophoridae) from the Mediterranean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 87, 1105 - 1110. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315407057591
  • Willems, W. R., Curini-Galletti, M., Ferrero, T. J., Fontaneto, D., Heiner, I., Huys, R., Ivanenko, V. N., Kristensen, R. M., Kanneby, T., MacNaughton, M. O., Martinez Arbizu, P., Todaro, M. A., Sterrer, W. & Jondelius, U. (2009) Meiofauna of the Koster-area, results from a workshop at the Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences (Tjarno, Sweden). 2009. Meiofauna Marina, 17, 1 - 34.