TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sørensen, Martin Vinther
A1  - Herranz, Maria
A1  - Grzelak, Katarzyna
A1  - Shimabukuro, Mauricio
A1  - Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg
A1  - Zeppilli, Daniela
T1  - Living on the edge – first survey of loriciferans along the Atacama Trench
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - The fauna of Loricifera along a north-south longitudinal transect following the Atacama Trench was explored. Whereas no loriciferans were collected from the actual trench, the continental slope and surrounding abyssal plains yielded two species of Rugiloricus and two of Pliciloricus. All four species are considered as new to science, but only one of them could be formally described. The new species, Pliciloricus ukupachaensis sp. nov., is closely related with the North Atlantic Pliciloricus leocaudatus, and the two species share different morphological traits, including an enlarged anal field with conspicuous pentagonal and hexagonal fields formed by strong, cuticular ridges. Among other peculiar traits, the new species is characterised by having strongly reduced trichoscalid plates and no double trichoscalids. Comparison with previously published, unidentified specimens suggests that the new species’ distributional range might reach as far as Oregon off the US west coast.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 879:162-187 
KW  - deep-sea
KW  - HADES-ERC
KW  - Loricifera
KW  - meiofauna
KW  - Pliciloricus ukupachaensis sp. nov.
KW  - Rugiloricus
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69747
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-697475
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2023
IS  - 879
SP  - 162
EP  - 187
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -