Lindia gravitata Lie-Pettersen 1905

• Main Author: De Smet, Willem H.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Rotifera; Eurotatoria; Ploima; Lindiidae; Lindia; Lindia gravitata; Norwegian Sea; Norway; Bergen; Willems
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5684251; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03995F13407DFFFAE2D204C93476FF72

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