The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Author
Bartels, Paul J.
Author
Roszkowska, Milena
Author
Nelson, Diane R.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4037
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1
189
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1
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1175-5326
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150.
Megastygarctides setoloso
Morgan & O'Reilly, 1988
Megastygarctides setoloso
n. sp.
(
Morgan & O'Reilly 1988
)
Megastygractides conf.
setoloso
Morgan & O'Reilly, 1988
(
Kharkevych 2013a
)
Terra typica
: Atlantic Ocean (
Scotland
, Europe)
Atlantic Ocean:
•
58
°
01′N
, 0
5
°
24′W
:
16 m
bsl:
Type
Locality: [FAO27]
UK
,
Scotland
, Highland County, Summer Isles, SE shore of Tanera Mòr, the anchorage near salmon cages, sand.
Morgan & O'Reilly (1988)
Black Sea:
•
44°37′N
,
33°32′E
;
2–17 m
bsl: [FAO37]
Ukraine
/
Russia
, Crimean Peninsula, Sevastopol bays, interstitial, medium and fine sand with fragments of algae.
Kharkevych (2013a)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification):
Atlantic Ocean: 1, Black Sea: 1;
total: 2. Record numbers (FAO classification):
FAO27: 1, FAO37: 1;
total: 2.
Remarks:
This species was described from the Inner Seas off the West Coast of
Scotland
(Atlantic) and just recently reported from the Black Sea. It is a subtidal species collected from sand.