Condyloderes Higgins 1969, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Neuhaus, Birger, Zotto, Matteo Dal, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Higgins, Robert P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cephalorhyncha; Kinorhyncha; Cyclorhagida; Centroderidae; Condyloderes; Pacific; Indian; Argentina; McIntyre; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5935031; https://zenodo.org/record/5935031

Condyloderes Higgins, 1969 Included species. Condyloderes kurilensis Adrianov & Maiorova, 2016; C. multispinosus (McIntyre, 1962) Higgins, 1969; C. paradoxus Higgins, 1969; C. setoensis Adrianov, Murakami & Shirayama, 2002; C. shirleyi sp. nov. Neuhaus & Higgins; C. storchi Higgins, 2004 in Martorelli & Higgins, 2004. Emended diagnosis. Mouth cone with 9 individual outer oral styles with broader base and thin and flexible anterior part; 14 trichoscalids each originating from trichoscalid plate and accompanied anteriorly by two pointed filamentous appendages; 16 placids with broader midventral placid, neighboured by two narrower placids and alternatingly a broader and a narrower placid; all placids with knobby projections (= condyles) in one or two rows in narrower placids and two or three rows in broader placids; midventral placid with three apical condyles, two in intermediate row, and 3–6 in basal row; ventromedial to midventral free flap and primary pectinate fringe of segment 1 at least partly reduced; acicular spine middorsally on segments 1–9, midterminally on segment 11 (= midterminal spine), lateroventrally on segments 1–9, laterodorsally on segment 10 (male only in species with irregularly distributed or almost no cuticular hairs), and lateral accessorily on segment 11 (= lateral terminal accessory spine); cuspidate spines present; type-3 sensory spot ventrolaterally next to lateral terminal accessory spine and subdorsally on segment 11; type-6 sensory spot elevated above trunk surface giving the impression to be half-drowned in the trunk cuticle; ventromedial appendage at least on two segments of segments 5–8 in female; area of micropapillae ventromedially on segment 9 in female of species with irregularly distributed or almost no cuticular hairs. : Published as part of Neuhaus, Birger, Zotto, Matteo Dal, Yamasaki, Hiroshi & Higgins, Robert P., 2019, Revision of Condyloderes (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) including description of Condyloderes shirleyi sp. nov., pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4561 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2627892 : {"references": ["Higgins, R. P. (1969) Indian Ocean Kinorhyncha: 1. Condyloderes and Sphenoderes, new cyclorhagid genera. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 14, 1 - 13.", "Adrianov, A. V. & Maiorova, A. S. (2016) Condyloderes kurilensis sp. nov. (Kinorhyncha; Cyclorhagida) - a new deep water species from the abyssal plain near the Kuril-Kamchatka trench. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 42, 11 - 19.", "McIntyre, A. D. (1962) The class Kinorhyncha (Echinoderida) in British waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 44, 503 - 509. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315400054217", "Adrianov, A. V., Murakami, C. & Shirayama, Y. (2002) Taxonomic studies of the Kinorhyncha in Japan. II. Condyloderes setoensis, a new species (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Tanabe Bay (Honshu) - first representative of the genus in the Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 115, 205 - 216.", "Martorelli, S. & Higgins, R. P. (2004) Kinorhyncha from the stomach of the shrimp Pleoticus muelleri (Bate, 1888) from Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 243, 85 - 98. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jcz. 2004.07.003"]}