Lindia gravitata Lie-Pettersen 1905

Lindia gravitata (Lie-Pettersen, 1905) The specimens seen showed a bit more distinct pseudosegmentation of the body than those used in its redescription (De Smet 2005); habitus and trophi otherwise identical. Males present, similar in habitus to females, but smaller (~ 150 µm), and without trophi. T...

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Main Author: De Smet, Willem H.
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Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5684251
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5684251
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Summary:Lindia gravitata (Lie-Pettersen, 1905) The specimens seen showed a bit more distinct pseudosegmentation of the body than those used in its redescription (De Smet 2005); habitus and trophi otherwise identical. Males present, similar in habitus to females, but smaller (~ 150 µm), and without trophi. The species was found in psammon from the Costa Brava, Côte d’Azur, and Tyrrhenian Sea, at 50 m to 3.5 km off shore, and depths varying from 15 up to 30 m; June, July, September, October; water temperature 16−21 °C. Previous records are from the Norwegian Sea at Bergen, Norway (Lie-Pettersen 1905), the North Sea: Kieler Bucht, Germany (Schulz 1936 / 37), Eastern Scheldt, The Netherlands (De Smet 2005), Tyrrhenian Sea, Elba Island (De Smet 2007), and Skagerrak, Sweden (Willems et al. 2009). Published as part of De Smet, Willem H., 2015, Rotifera from the Mediterranean Sea, with description of ten new species, pp. 151-196 in Zootaxa 4028 (2) on page 189, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240556