First Investigation of the marine gastrotrich fauna from the waters of North Tunisia, with the description of a new species of Halichaetonotus (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) [PDF]
DiversityGastrotrichs (hairy bellies) are microscopic, acoelomate worms that live in freshwater and marine environments and represent one of the significant components of the meiobenthic communities.
El Cafsi, M'hamed +4 more
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Evolutionary Implications of the microRNA- and piRNA Complement of Lepidodermella squamata (Gastrotricha). [PDF]
Noncoding RNA, 2019 Gastrotrichs—’hairy bellies’—are microscopic free-living animals inhabiting marine and freshwater habitats. Based on morphological and early molecular analyses, gastrotrichs were placed close to nematodes, but recent phylogenomic analyses have suggested ...
Fromm B +5 more
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Patterns of diversity in soft-bodied meiofauna: dispersal ability and body size matter. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2012 Background: Biogeographical and macroecological principles are derived from patterns of distribution in large organisms, whereas microscopic ones have often been considered uninteresting, because of their supposed wide distribution. Here, after reporting
Curini-Galletti M +12 more
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Zootaxa, 2012 Three new gastrotrich species of the genus Tetranchyroderma are described sublittoral sandy bottoms of the Yellow Sea and Jeju Island in South Korea. Tetranchyroderma aethesbregmum sp. nov., which has a dorsal cuticular armature with pentancres only, is characterized by the peculiar shape of the head with a median trapezoidal lobe flanking three pairs ...
Lee, Jimin, Chang, Cheon Young
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Tetranchyroderma sardum, A new species of the family Thaumastodermatidae (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida) [PDF]
Bolletino di zoologia, 1988 Abstract Tetranchyroderma sardum, a new species of macrodasyid gastrotrich, was found in litoral sand from Sardinia. It is characterized by: 1. two pairs of cephalic tentacles, one rod‐like and the other knob‐like; 2. twenty‐two pairs of ventrolateral adhesive tubes; 3. three furcal adhesive tubes and 4. thirteen longitudinal rows of pen‐tancres.
TODARO, Mary Antonio Donatello +2 more
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Italian marine Gastrotricha: II. One new genus and ten new species of Macrodasyida [PDF]
Bolletino di zoologia, 1993 Abstract A new genus, Dendropodola, and species, D. transitionalis, are described in the family Dactylopodolidae. Three new species, Cephalodasys hadrosomus, Mesodasys adenotubulatus, and Mesodasys ischiensis, are described in the family Lepidodasyidae.
HUMMON W. D. +2 more
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New data on freshwater psammic Gastrotricha from Brazil. [PDF]
Zookeys, 2010 Current knowledge of freshwater gastrotrich fauna from Brazil is underestimated as only two studies are available. The present communication is a taxonomic account of the first-ever survey of freshwater Gastrotricha in Minas Gerais State.
Garraffoni AR +3 more
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Corrigendum to “Marine Macrodasyida (Gastrotricha) from Hokkaido, Northern Japan”
Species Diversity, 2019 Shohei Yamauchi, Hiroshi Kajihara
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The spermatozoon of Thaumastoderma moebjergi with the description of the sperm model for the family Thaumastodermatidae (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida) [PDF]
, 2011 The spermatozoon of Thaumastoderma moebjergi (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida, Thaumastodermatidae) was described, and its structural features were compared to those of the other thaumastodermatid sperm models so far described.
C. Fondello +5 more
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Not too big for its mouth: direct evidence of a macrodasyidan gastrotrich preyed in nature by a dileptid ciliate [PDF]
, 2022 Nearly ubiquitous and usually speciose in most aquatic habitats, the meiofaunal-sized gastrotrichs are recognized as an important component of marine and freshwater ecosystems.
Luporini, P., Todaro, M. A.
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