Rotifera from the Mediterranean Sea, with description of ten new species
Author
De Smet, Willem H.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4028
2
151
196
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.1
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1175-5326
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Encentrum striatum
Althaus, 1957
A single specimen of
E. striatum
was found in psammon from the Côte d’Azur at Îlot de la Fourmigue,
3.5 km
off shore, depth
15 m
, June, water temperature 16 °C. The species was originally described from psammon of the sea water aquarium at Varna, Black Sea,
Bulgaria
(
Althaus 1957
), and reported from psammon of sandy beaches from the North Sea, island Sylt,
Germany
(
Tzschaschel 1979
), and from hygropsammon of a saline backwater- pool in the Santa Rosa Sound, Gulf of
Mexico
, Florida,
U.S.A.
(
Turner 1990
).
The trophi need redescription as SEM (
Fig. 27
D) shows a more complicated morphology with differences in number of apical rami teeth and preuncinal teeth, and shape of intramallei and supramanubria, that could not be observed by light microscopy (
Althaus 1957
;
Tzschaschel 1979
). Such a redescription awaits discovery of additional specimens.