A dichotomous key to the genera of the Marine Heterotardigrades (Tardigrada)
Author
Fontoura, Paulo
Author
Bartels, Paul J.
Author
Jørgensen, Aslak
Author
Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
Author
Hansen, Jesper Guldberg
text
Zootaxa
2017
4294
1
1
45
journal article
32663
10.11646/zootaxa.4294.1.1
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STYGARCTIDAE
Schulz, 1951
(emended by
Hansen
et al
. 2012
)
Arthrotardigrada
with dorsal cuticle forming five dorsal plates (one cephalic plate; three body plates – segmental plates I, II and III – and one caudal plate – segmental plate IV). Dorsal plates sometimes absent. Intersegmental dorsal plates and ventral plates may be present. Head subdivided into lobes; complete set of cephalic cirri and two pairs of clavae. Stylet supports always absent. Legs non-digitate with four, three or two claws. Claws with or without dorsal spurs or long dorsal filaments34; claws attached with dorsal basal membrane. Leg sense organs present only on the fourth pair of legs, as bulb-shaped papillae. Seminal receptacles formed as cuticular pouches with short straight ducts or with long sinuous ducts close to the female gonopore.
Selected literature for further information: A key to the
Stygarctidae
can be found in Morone De Lucia
et al.
(1984).