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Angursa Pollock 1979

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Identification key to Angursa species

1. Club-shaped primary clavae longer than lateral cirri........................................ 2 (A. bicuspis group)

– Bulbous primary clavae shorter than lateral cirri...........................................6 (A. lanceolata group)

2. Well developed anal papillae..................................................................... A. bicuspis Pollock, 1979

– Anal papillae absent........................................................................................................................... 3

3. Legs II and III sensory organs present; spiral seminal receptacle ducts........ A. clavifera Noda, 1985

– Leg II and III sensory organs absent.................................................................................................. 4

4. Three-lobed tertiary clavae; D-shaped secondary clavae; seminal receptacles present........................................................................................................................................... A. seisuimaruae sp. nov.

– Tertiary clavae with no indentation or only slightly indented around external cirri.......................... 5

5. Secondary clavae situated close together (ca 3 μm); short (10 μm) cirrus E.......................................................................................................................................... A. abyssalis Renaud-Mornant, 1981

– Secondary clavae situated apart (ca 9 μm); long (19 μm) cirrus E............... A. capsula Bussau, 1992

6. Leg IV sensory organs as papillae enveloped in hemispherical sheaths; cirri E with annulated scapi............................................................................................ A. antarctica Villora-Moreno, 1998

– Leg IV sensory organs as elongate papillae....................................................................................... 7

7. Cirri E lance-shaped................................................................ A. lanceolata Renaud-Mornant, 1981

– Cirri E tongue-shaped..................................................................................... A. lingua Bussau, 1992

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 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.510, http://zenodo.org/record/2616378

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D3878DFF9A58191EE26771DE31F942

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Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2019.510 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/2616378 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFEAFFF5FF9658151E5F6411DB46FFE9 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03D3878DFF9A58191EE26771DE31F942 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/215923441 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/27716/taxon/03D3878DFF9A58191EE26771DE31F942.taxon (URL)

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
  • Noda H. 1985. Description of a new subspecies of Angursa bicuspis Pollock (Heterotardigrada, Halechiniscidae) from Tanabe Bay, Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 30: 269 - 276. Available from https: // hdl. handle. net / 2433 / 176110 [accessed 4 Feb. 2019].
  • Renaud-Mornant J. 1981. Deux nouveaux Angursa Pollock, 1979, du domaine abyssal (Tardigrada, Arthrotardigrada). Tethys 10: 161 - 164.
  • Bussau C. 1992. New deep-sea Tardigrada (Arthrotardigrada, Halechiniscidae) from manganese nodule area of the eastern South Pacific. Zoologica Scripta 21: 79 - 91. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1992. tb 00311. x
  • Villora-Moreno S. 1998. Deep-sea Tardigrada from South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) with description of Angursa antarctica sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada, Halechiniscidae). Polar Biology 19: 336 - 341. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 003000050255