Tanarctus heterodactylus Renaud-Mornant 1980

• 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; Tanarctus; Tanarctus heterodactylus; Faroe Islands; Indian; Renaud; Faroe Bank
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5632650; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632650

135. Tanarctus heterodactylus Renaud-Mornant, 1980 Tanarctus heterodactylus (Renaud-Mornant 1980) Terra typica: Atlantic Ocean (USA, North America) Atlantic Ocean: • 61 ° 17 ′ 42 ′′N, 08° 32 ′ 18 ′′W; 104–260 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, shell gravel, coarse shell gravel, fine carbonate sand, carbonate sand, or fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2001) • 38 ° 48 ′N, 75 °04′W; 4 m bsl: [FAO 21] USA, Delaware State, Sussex County, mouth of Delaware Bay, The Shears, sublittoral sandy bar. Hummon (1994) • 34 °07.3′N, 75 ° 57.7 ′W / 34 °07′N, 75 ° 58 ′W; 400 m bsl: [FAO 31] Type locality: USA, North Carolina State, bathyal or abyssal depth, surface of sand, fine sand with 17 % clay. Renaud-Mornant (1980) • 4 ° 20 ′S to 4 ° 50 ′S, 36 °00′W to 37 ° 15 ′W [04° 35 ′S, 36 ° 38 ′W]; 20–100 m bsl: [FAO 41] Brazil, continental shelf off Ceará State and Rio Grande Do Norte State, fine to coarse quartz sand with detritus, and terrigenous mud. da Rocha et al. (2013) • 8 ° 25 ′ 10 ′′S to 8 ° 25 ′ 20 ′′S, 34 ° 55 ′00′′W [08° 25 ′S, 34 ° 58 ′W]; 0 m bsl: [FAO 41] Brazil, Pernambuco State, Cupe beach, biogenic gravel or sandy-muddy sediment. da Rocha et al. (2013) • 23 °03′S, 43 ° 17.3 ′W / 23 °03′S, 43 ° 17 ′W; 22 m bsl: [FAO 41] Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, continental shelf off Rio de Janeiro, coarse sand. Renaud-Mornant (1980) Indian Ocean: • 12 ° 53 ′,05S, 45 ° 16 ′,03E [12 ° 53 ′S, 45 ° 18 ′E]; 275–400 m bsl: [FAO 51] Comoros Archipelago, Mozambique Channel, muddy sand. Renaud-Mornant (1984 a) Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 6, Indian Ocean: 1; total: 7. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO 21: 1, FAO 27: 1, FAO 31: 1, FAO 41: 3, FAO 51: 1; total: 7. Remarks: In general this is a deep sea species mainly reported from below 200 m bsl. However, there are also reports at much shallower depths (0 to <100 m bsl) from off the coasts of Brazil and Delaware (USA). Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography ...