Loxosomella unicornis Borisanova & Krylova, 2014, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Borisanova, Anastasiya O., Krylova, Elena M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Kamptozoa; Entoprocta; Coloniales; Loxosomatidae; Loxosomella; Loxosomella unicornis; White Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631969; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5631969

Loxosomella unicornis sp. nov. (Figs 2, 3) Material examined. Holotype: ZMMU No. Uk-5 (an adult), from Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea (66°34' N, 33°08' E), 24 m, 26 June 2013, on the bryozoan Cribrilina sp. living as an epibiont on a shell of Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758. Paratypes: ZMMU No. Uk-6 (7 paratypes, all adults), from the same locality as holotype. Additional material examined: the same locality, 5 m, 27 August 1983, on the bryozoan Electra sp., 20 adult specimens. Etymology. Greek unicornis, horn, alluding to the horn-shaped appendage on the top part of the calyx. Diagnosis. Adults: Medium-sized species, total length of body from end of foot to base of tentacles 300–350 µm (up to 650 µm) (Table 2). Calyx length 130–215 µm, width 120–230 µm. Calyx compressed in anteroposterior axis, about twice as wide as thick. Stalk length varies from 90 to 320 µm, stalk width about 70–105 µm. There is pair of thin, transparent lateral wings on sides of calyx making it rounded in frontal view. Calyx with 8 rather ... : Published as part of Borisanova, Anastasiya O. & Krylova, Elena M., 2014, A new species of Loxosomatidae (Entoprocta, Solitaria) from the White Sea: Loxosomella unicornis sp. nov., pp. 290-296 in Zootaxa 3861 (3) on pages 292-295, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3861.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/224915 ...