Faroestygarctus dezioae Hansen, Kristensen & Jorgensen 2012

• 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; Stygarctidae; Faroestygarctus; Faroestygarctus dezioae; Faroe Islands; Kristensen; Faroe Bank
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5632684; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632684

151. Faroestygarctus dezioae Hansen, Kristensen & Jørgensen, 2012 Faroestygarctus dezioae nov. gen. et nov. sp. (Hansen et al. 2012) Terra typica: Atlantic Ocean (Faroe Bank, Europe) Atlantic Ocean: • 61 ° 17 ′N, 08° 32 ′W; 120–249 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR station 785, gravel, coarse shell gravel or shell sand. Hansen et al. (2012) • 61 ° 12 ′N, 08° 25 ′W; 120–249 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR station 573, gravel, coarse shell gravel or shell sand. Hansen et al. (2012) • 61 °00′N, 08° 13 ′W; 120–249 m bsl: [FAO 27] Type Locality: Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, BIOFAR station 2013, gravel, coarse shell gravel or shell sand. Hansen et al. (2012) Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 3; total: 3. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO 27: 3; total: 3. Remarks: This is a recently described subtidal genus and species known only from the type locality and two neighbouring sites. It is a monotypic genus. 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 132, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519