Coronarctus stylisetus Renaud-Mornant 1987
- Dataset
- The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Arthrotardigrada
- family
- Coronarctidae
- genus
- Coronarctus
- species
- Coronarctus stylisetus
description
Coronarctus stylisetus n. sp. (Renaud-Mornant 1987 a) Terra typica: Atlantic Ocean (USA, North America) Atlantic Ocean: • 61 ° 17 ′ 42 ′′ N, 08 ° 32 ′ 18 ′′ W; 249 – 260 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, shell gravel, coarse shell gravel, carbonate fine sand, carbonate sand, or fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2001) • 34 ° 07 ′ 3 N, 75 ° 57 ′ 7 W / 34 ° 07 ′ N, 75 ° 58 ′ W; 439 m bsl: [FAO 31] Type Locality: USA, off North Carolina coast, Station RHI 834 / ” RV Eastward cruise 1974 Sta. 24302, sediment sample. Renaud-Mornant (1987 a) Record numbers (Sea / Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 2; total: 2. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO 27: 1, FAO 31: 1; total: 2.
discussion
Remarks: Known only from two Atlantic localities (North Carolina, USA and more recently Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands), this species has been reported from relatively shallow depths in comparison with other Coronarctus taxa.