Revision of Angursa (Arthrotardigrada: Styraconyxidae) with the description of a new species from Japan

  • Shinta Fujimoto Research Center for Marine Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
  • Jesper Guldberg Hansen Section of Biosystematics, Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.510
Keywords: beach, biogeography, deep-sea, meiobenthos, Tardigrada

Abstract

We re-examined the type material of five of the seven described species of the marine tardigrade genus Angursa Pollock, 1979, namely, A. abyssalis Renaud-Mornant, 1981, A. bicuspis Pollock, 1979 (type species), A. capsula Bussau, 1992, A. lanceolata Renaud-Mornant, 1981, and A. lingua Bussau, 1992. In addition, we describe A. seisuimaruae sp. nov. from the Sea of Kumano, Japan. Based on new data obtained, we amend the diagnosis of this genus, provide a taxonomic key to species, and discuss their geographical distributions.

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Published
2019-03-28
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Fujimoto, S., & Hansen, J. G. (2019). Revision of Angursa (Arthrotardigrada: Styraconyxidae) with the description of a new species from Japan. European Journal of Taxonomy, (510). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.510
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No. 510 (2019): Revision of Angursa (Arthrotardigrada: Styraconyxidae) with the description of a new species from Japan
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