Rhomboarctus aslaki Hansen, Gallo D'Addabbo & Grimaldi

• Published in: Atherosclerosis Plus
• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena, Nelson, Diane R.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Arthrotardigrada; Halechiniscidae; Rhomboarctus; Rhomboarctus aslaki; Faroe Islands; Faroe Bank
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5632584; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632584

104. Rhomboarctus aslaki Hansen, Gallo D’Addabbo & Grimaldi de Zio, 2003 Rhomboarctus aslaki sp. n. (Hansen et al. 2003) Terra typica: Atlantic Ocean (Faroe Islands, Europe) Atlantic Ocean: • 61 ° 17.78 ′N, 08° 32.25 ′W / 61 ° 18 ′N, 08° 32 ′W; 249 m bsl: [FAO 27] Type Locality: Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR Station 785, carbonate sand with basalt pebbles, fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2003) • 61 ° 17.78 ′N, 08° 32.25 ′W / 61 ° 18 ′N, 08° 32 ′W; 138.5 m bs l: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR Station 2019, carbonate sand with basalt pebbles, fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2003) • 61 ° 17.66 ′N, 08° 32.25 ′W / 61 ° 18 ′N, 08° 32 ′W; 260 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR Station 627, carbonate sand with basalt pebbles, fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2003) • 61 ° 12.33 ′N, 08° 28.23 ′W / 61 ° 12 ′N, 08° 28 ′W; 148 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR Station 786, carbonate sand with basalt pebbles, fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2003) • 61 °12.0′N, 08° 31 ′W / 61 ° 12 ′N, 08° 31 ′W; 200 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR Station 2011, carbonate sand with basalt pebbles, fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2003) Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 5; total: 5 Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO 27: 5; total: 5. Remarks: This is a relatively recently described deep sea species known only from the type locality and a few neighbouring sites. Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 4037 (1) on page 99, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519