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Issue: Vol. 5486 No. 1: 24 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.1.5
Page range: 121-128
Abstract views: 119
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Angursa (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada) from the White Sea, North Russia

Department of Invertebrate Zoology; Faculty of Biology; M.V. Lomonosov’s Moscow University; 119234 Moscow; Russia
N.A. Pertsov White Sea Biological Station; Faculty of Biology; M.V. Lomonosov’s Moscow University; 119234 Moscow; Russia
Tardigrada description interstitial marine tardigrades Styraconyxidae taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Angursa (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada, Styraconyxidae) found on an intertidal sandy beach in Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea, North Russia is described. The new species Angursa olenevskii sp. n. differs clearly from all other Angursa species in having equally long sense organs on legs I–III, long peduncles on the external digits extended to the claw, and evident absence of secondary and tertiary clavae (with possible exception of A. bicuspis).

 

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