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(
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&amp; 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFCDFF9BFF3BEB7FAEF8FDFE" bold="true" box="[151,413,573,599]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Material examined.</emphasis>
Hundreds of specimens collected in psammon samples from the Mediterranean, Mindanao Sea and Red Sea were examined. The localities at which I found 
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Mediterranean. (1) 
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, Bay of Hyères: Île Porquerolles, near wreck of Prosper Schiaffino (Donateur), depth 
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, distance from shore ~ 
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, 
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; Port Cros, La Gabinière Est, depth 
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, distance from shore 
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, water temperature 22 °C, 
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; Cavalaire, wreck of Espignole, depth 
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, distance from shore 
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, water temperature 20 °C, 
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; (2) 
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, Bègur: Canyons de Tamariu, 
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de Fito, Furio de Fito, depth 
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, distance from shore 
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, 15–27 °C, 
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2006. (3) 
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, Elba Island: Ligurian Sea: Punta della Madonna, Scoglio della Nave Enfola, La Formiche di Ponente, Punta della Madonna di Ponente, Picco Giallo, Scoglietto di Portoferraio; Tyrrhenian Sea: Il Relitto di Pomonte (wreck of Elviscott), La Fonza Esterna; depth 
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, distance from shore ~ 
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to 
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, water temperature 21–23 °C, 
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Mindanao Sea, the 
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: Bohol Island (Garden Eel), Balicasag Island, Siquijor Island (Tubod Sanctuary, Sawang), Apo Island (Cogon, The Chapel), Negros Island (Dauin); 
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, depth 
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, distance from shore ~ 
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to 
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, water temperature 28 °C, 
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Red Sea, 
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: Sha’ab Maksour, Abu Galawa Sougair, Sha’ab Marsa Alam, Abu Dabbab, El Shona; depth 
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, water temperature 29 °C, 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFCDFF9BFF6AEDE0AEBCFB15" bold="true" box="[198,473,1186,1212]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Description of female.</emphasis>
The lorica (
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) is more or less elliptical, weakly truncate anteriorly, smooth or occasionally very weakly striated (
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F). Ratio lorica length/lorica width 1.43–1.71 (average 1.54). The dorsal anterior margin shows a broad, flat median part connected by shallow folds to smaller rounded lateral lobes. The ventral margin is slightly convex (
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D, F) to weakly undulate (
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A–C, E), with shallow median indentation. The dorsal anterior margin is not or slightly projecting beyond the ventral margin. The posterior margin is smoothly rounded or very weakly rounded-angular. In cross-section (
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G) the lorica is slightly arched dorsally with shallow elevation near the lateral margins; ventrally almost flat with median part protruding. The foot opening is sub-terminal, on the ventral side; it takes the shape of an inverted U-shaped slit, the lateral margins of which sometimes appear undulate (
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C). The foot is composed of a long wrinkled proximal part, a short penultimate and a longer distal pseudosegment ending in a ciliated cup. The ratio lorica length/position of antennae relative to the antero-dorsal margin varies between 2.40–2.88 (average 2.60) for the dorsal antenna and 1.97–2.23 (average 2.07) for the lateral antennae. Two red eyespots.
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Trophi malleoramate (
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). The rami are elongate triangular with rounded latero-ventral margins, and very short blunt alulae (
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D: a). Basal and subbasal chambers forming single large chamber, opening latero-ventrally by a large common fenestra. Asymmetrical and interlocking median apophyses are apparent in caudal view. The inner margins of the distal rami sections bear 10–16/11–16 (left/right) arched and strongly webbed rami scleropili. The basal apophyses are moderately developed ridges, composed of a series of fused scleropili. The fulcrum is short, plank-shaped, and more or less trapezoid in lateral view. It is composed of a double layer of long and appressed sclerite bodies, the greatest part of which is involved in the formation of the junction with the rami, and another series situated anteriorly which border a distinct proximal opening (
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A: fo). The unci plates are composed of 10–12/11–12 (left/right) straight and strongly webbed teeth, lying parallel. There are three major teeth with distinctly offset club-shaped head in each uncus; the head of the midst tooth is distinctly smaller than the others. The space between the minor teeth is fairly large, and their weakly offset head is cylindrical to elongate-lanceolate. The crescent shaped manubria are composed of a superimposed dorsal, median, ventral and well developed subventral chamber (
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B: sc).
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC2FF94FF3BEF1EAE79F9DD" bold="true" box="[151,284,1628,1652]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC2FF94FE8FEF1EAD63F9DA" box="[291,518,1628,1651]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Testudinella obscura</emphasis>
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. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC2FF94FDB9EF1EAD2AF9DD" bold="true" box="[533,591,1628,1652]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">A–E.</emphasis>
Loricae, ventral view. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC2FF94FCE0EF1EAC3AF9DD" bold="true" box="[844,863,1628,1652]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">F.</emphasis>
lorica, dorsal view. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC2FF94FBEDEF1EAB33F9DD" bold="true" box="[1089,1110,1628,1652]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">G.</emphasis>
Lorica, caudal view. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC2FF94FAEBEF1EAA06F9DD" bold="true" box="[1351,1379,1628,1652]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">H.</emphasis>
Foot pseudosegments. Scale bars: A–G: 50 µm, H: 25 µm.
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC2FF94FF6AEF86AD7CF977" bold="true" box="[198,537,1732,1758]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
The species was originally described (
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) from littoral mesopsammon (
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), 
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from the shore, of the Bulgarian part of the Black Sea at Spatnite pjasatzi near Varna, July, salinity ~18 %. Only a few more, but undocumented records exist from 
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(White and Barents Sea), Europe (the Channel, Mediterranean), 
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(Gulf of 
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) and a tidal river on Peninsular 
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. Studying zooplankton in 104 arctic rockpools of different salt content along the shores of the islands in the White and Barents Sea, 
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reports the species from (percentages of water bodies the species was found in the areas of the respective seas bracketed) fresh (14 and 25 %), brackish (3 and 17 %) and marine (25 and 60 %) waters. The records from the Channel, Europe are by 
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, who found in total four specimens among 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FE45E9DAADF1FF18" box="[489,660,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Enteromorpha</emphasis>
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in a puddle at Roc’h kroum and the harbour of Roscoff, and in a nursery tank of the Station Biologique (July, October). Menéndez &amp; Comín (1986) and 
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Forés 
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(1986)
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reported 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FEAEE9A7AEE4FF57" box="[258,385,229,254]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">T. obscura</emphasis>
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from coastal lagoons of the Ebro Delta (N. E. 
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), located at the western part of the Mediterranean. Studying rotifer distribution in interstitial sand of a small brackish-water beach in Florida, 
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(Okalossa Isl., Santa Rosa Sound), 
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collected 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FC02E870AB48FEE2" box="[942,1069,306,331]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">T. obscura</emphasis>
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in the top 
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of sand of the intertidal zone (August, water temperature 38 °C, pH 6.5). 
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found a single specimen in plankton of the Chukai river estuary opening into the South 
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Sea, 
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(28.2 °C, 3,800 µScm at high tide). Speaking from my experience with marine rotifers, I have not found yet the species in samples, both psammon or periphyton, from the North Sea, the Channel, and arctic rockpools or littoral from 
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(
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) and 
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, and neither did 
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, 
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observe it in rock-pools and shore-pools, or among sub-littoral algae and bottom sediments from western 
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and southern 
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. I therefore consider the observations by 
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and 
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as misidentifications of e.g. young 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FDBEEB2AADF7FD28" box="[530,658,616,641]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">T. clypeata</emphasis>
(Müller, 1786)
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FF3BEF91AE7DF942" bold="true" box="[151,280,1747,1771]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FEB3EF91AD66F943" box="[287,515,1747,1770]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
<taxonomicName id="DA944D40FFC3FF95FEB3EF91AE9AF943" box="[287,511,1747,1770]" class="Eurotatoria" family="Testudinellidae" genus="Testudinella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Flosculariaceae" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Rotifera" rank="species" species="obscura">Testudinella obscura</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
scanning electron microscope photographs of trophi. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FB92EF91AB3DF942" bold="true" box="[1086,1112,1747,1771]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">A.</emphasis>
Complete set, frontal view. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FA28EF91AAFEF942" bold="true" box="[1412,1435,1747,1771]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">B.</emphasis>
Detail left manubrium. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FE30EFB7AED2F8A4" bold="true" box="[412,439,1781,1805]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C.</emphasis>
Complete set, caudal view. 
<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FD5DEFB7AC6EF8A4" bold="true" box="[753,779,1781,1805]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">D.</emphasis>
Complete set, lateral view. Scale bars: 10 µm. a: alula, dc: dorsal chamber, fo: fulcrum opening, mc: median chamber, sc: sub-ventral chamber, vc: ventral chamber.
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From the observations considered valid it follows that the species is widespread (
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) and apparently perennial. The water temperatures of 15–38 °C it was found, suggest that it prefers warm waters. It occurs from the intertidal zone to at least 
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off shore, up to a depth of 
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, and I agree with 
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that 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC3FF95FF3BEE90AE71F842" box="[151,276,2002,2027]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">T. obscura</emphasis>
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appears to be an interstitial element and may live only in that habitat (the single specimen report from plankton by 
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must be considered as an accidental introduction). 
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was present in 24 of the 38 subtidal psammon samples studied here and as such it was the most frequent, and often even only species observed. It usually was also the most abundant rotifer and only outnumbered locally by the monogonont 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC0FF96FE9EE84EAE94FE8C" box="[306,497,268,293]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Lindia gravitata</emphasis>
(Lie-Pettersen, 1905)
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and the bdelloid 
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<emphasis id="2FE0EAD1FFC0FF96FC11E84EAB1CFE8C" box="[957,1145,268,293]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Rotaria laticeps</emphasis>
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.
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The variation of the lorica (
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) was not related to any sampling locality or area.
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