Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) naiadis Balsamo & Todaro 1995 ...

• Main Author: Kånneby, Tobias
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Gastrotricha; Chaetonotida; Chaetonotidae; Chaetonotus; Chaetonotus naiadis; Abisko; Lapland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632010; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5632010

Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) naiadis Balsamo & Todaro, 1995 (Fig. 7) Localities: Saltö, Bohuslän (N 58º 52’ 21’’; E 11º 07’ 34’’), November 13, 2008; Abisko, Lapland (N 68º 21’ 23’’; E 18º 47’ 59’’), July 5, 2010. Material: 3 specimens. TL, 137–140 µm; FL, 14–18 µm; AL, 7–8 µm; PhL, 32–33 µm; MD, 4–5 µm; CW, 12–13 µm; TNC, 28–31; DC, 20–21; DR, 27–28; VLC, 8–11; HS, 2 x 2 µm; NS, 2– 3 x 2–3 µm; DS, 3– 4 x 2–3 µm; HSp, 1–2 µm; NSp, 1– 2 µm; DSp, 1–2 µm; VC, 5–6; VTS, 5 x 3 µm. Five-lobed head with two pairs of cephalic sensory ciliary tufts; anterior pair with mostly short cilia, but one cilium substantially longer than the others. Hypostomium developed as a small sub-rectangular plate. Two pairs of dorsal sensory bristles; anterior pair inserted at U28 and posterior pair emerging from rounded triangular doublekeeled scales at U78–79. Furca straight with adhesive tubes constituting approximately half of the total furca length. Dorsal body surface covered by small three-lobed scales with minute simple spines. ... : Published as part of Kånneby, Tobias, 2013, New species and records of freshwater Chaetonotus (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotidae) from Sweden, pp. 551-588 in Zootaxa 3701 (5) on pages 563-564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/247111 ...