Tanarctus velatus McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, Zootaxa 4037 (1), pp. 1-189 : 128

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:670819B1-3840-4C0A-ABFF-4D5AE3A263C0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632662

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5435063-FFE1-FFEE-FF18-FDBAFEB4FB27

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Plazi

scientific name

Tanarctus velatus McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976
status

 

141. Tanarctus velatus McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976 View in CoL

Tanarctus velatus nov. spec. ( McKirdy et al. 1976)

T. velatus McKirdy et al., 1976 ( Renaud-Mornant & Gourbault 1984) View in CoL Terra typica : Pacific Ocean (Galapagos Islands)

Atlantic Ocean:

• 16°15.7′N, 61°12.7′W / 16°16′N, 61°13′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO31] Guadeloupe Islands, Grande-Terre Island, Anse La Gourde [Anse á la Gourde], intertidal, coarse coral sand (mean diameter 0.525 mm). Renaud-Mornant & Gourbault (1981, 1984)

• 4°20′S to 4°50′S, 36°00′W to 37°15′W [04°35′S, 36°38′W]; 20–100 m bsl: [FAO41] Brazil, continental shelf off Ceará State and Rio Grande Do Norte State, coarse quartz sand and terrigenous mud. da Rocha et al. (2013)

Indian Ocean:

• 03°29′N, 72°47′E; 22m bsl: [FAO51] Republic of the Maldives, Ari Sud Atoll, coarse sand. Gallo et al. (2007)

Pacific Ocean:

• 00°33′S, 90°31′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO87] Type Locality: Galapagos Islands, Santa Cruz Island, Conway Bay, 0–20 cm depth, fine to medium sand. McKirdy et al. (1976)

Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 2, Indian Ocean: 1, Pacific Ocean: 1; total: 4.

Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO31: 1, FAO41: 1, FAO51: 1, FAO87: 1; total: 4.

Remarks: This species is known from a few tropical intertidal and subtidal localities, probably with a Pantropical distribution.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Tardigrada

Class

Heterotardigrada

Order

Arthrotardigrada

Family

Halechiniscidae

SubFamily

Tanarctinae

Genus

Tanarctus

Loc

Tanarctus velatus McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R. 2015
2015
Loc

T. velatus McKirdy et al., 1976 ( Renaud-Mornant & Gourbault 1984 )

McKirdy et al., 1976 (Renaud-Mornant & Gourbault 1984
1984
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