Angursa antarctica Villora-Moreno 1998 ...

• Main Authors: Fujimoto, Shinta, Hansen, Jesper Guldberg
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Arthrotardigrada; Styraconyxidae; Angursa; Angursa antarctica; Moreno; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5941837; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5941837

Angursa antarctica Villora-Moreno, 1998 Emended diagnosis Angursa with bulbous primary clavae shorter than lateral cirri; pedestals of primary clavae and lateral cirri absent; morphology of secondary clavae unknown; flat tertiary clavae around external cirri; tapering cirri E with annulated scapi situated on short cirrophores; leg I sensory organs present; legs II and III sensory organs absent; leg IV sensory organs each as papilla enveloped in hemispherical cuticular sheath with short, apical spine; weak anal papillae present. Remarks We amend the diagnosis of A. antarctica to include the information on the anal papillae noted in the original description (Villora-Moreno 1998) as well as the common pedestals of the primary clavae and the lateral cirri that Villora-Moreno (1998) considered as a distinguishing character but did not include in the diagnosis of A. antarctica. Furthermore, Villora-Moreno (1998) reported the presence of the secondary clavae around the external cirri. As the external cirri are ... : Published as part of Fujimoto, Shinta & Hansen, Jesper Guldberg, 2019, Revision of Angursa (Arthrotardigrada: Styraconyxidae) with the description of a new species from Japan, pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 510 on page 9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.510, http://zenodo.org/record/2616378 ...