Rhomboarctus aslaki Hansen, Gallo D'Addabbo & Grimaldi
- Dataset
- The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Arthrotardigrada
- family
- Halechiniscidae
- genus
- Rhomboarctus
- species
- Rhomboarctus aslaki
description
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.
discussion
Remarks: This is a relatively recently described deep sea species known only from the type locality and a few neighbouring sites.