Microcodides chlaena Gosse 1886 ...

• Main Author: Sørensen, Martin Vinther
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Rotifera; Eurotatoria; Ploima; Epiphanidae; Microcodides; Microcodides chlaena; Greenland; Ilulissat; Rotifer
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680526; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5680526

Microcodides chlaena (Gosse, 1886) This species was extremely common in the samples. It has previously been recorded in Europe (see e.g. Wulfert 1940; Berzins 1978), the former Soviet Union (Kutikova 1965; 1970) India (Sarma, 1988), Australia (Shiel & Koste 1979) and North­ and South America (Harring & Myers 1922; Koste 1986, 1988; Nogrady 1989). On Greenland it has been recorded in the Ilulissat region (Bergendal 1892). Koste and Shiel (1987) consider the species as a cosmopolitan. The species is easily distinguished by the presence of toes with unequal length and lateral antennae in depressions located posterior to a pair of characteristic integumental elevations (Fig. 1 D). The adult animals are gibbous in lateral view and conical in dorso­ventral view (Fig. 1 D); immature animals are considerably smaller, with S­shaped body (Fig. 1 B). The body is divided into a head, a trunk and a foot region. The head is large, especially in the immature specimens. The dorsal part of the trunk has distinct ... : Published as part of Sørensen, Martin Vinther, 2006, On the rotifer fauna of Disko Island, Greenland, with notes on selected species from a stagnant freshwater lake, pp. 37-49 in Zootaxa 1241 on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273458 ...