TY - JOUR A1 - Hansen, Jesper G. A1 - Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg T1 - A new genus and five new species of the subfamily Florarctinae (Tardigrada, Arthrotardigrada) T2 - European journal of taxonomy N2 - A new genus Higginsarctus gen. nov. in the subfamily Florarctinae Renaud-Mornant, 1982 (Arthrotardigrada) is established on the basis of the type species H. signeae gen. et sp. nov. described from carbonated sand habitats from Faroe Bank, North Atlantic Ocean. Three other Atlantic species H. laurae gen. et sp. nov., H. martini gen. et sp. nov. and H. shintai gen. et sp. nov. are described from Dentalium sand, Roscoff, France and finally H. lassei gen. et sp. nov. is described from the deep sea in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile. The recently described species Ligiarctus alatus Gomes-Júnior, E. Santos, da Rocha, P.J.P. Santos & Fontoura, 2018 is investigated and compared with the type species Ligiarctus eastwardi Renaud-Mornant, 1982. New and additional information to the original description of L. alatus is provided and this species is moved to Higginsarctus gen. nov. as H. alatus comb. nov. T3 - European journal of taxonomy : EJT - 762:149-184 KW - interstitial KW - marine subtidal tardigrades KW - Florarctinae KW - Ligiarctus KW - Higginsarctus gen. nov. Y1 - 2021 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61496 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-614969 SN - 2118-9773 VL - 2021 IS - 762 SP - 149 EP - 184 PB - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CY - Paris ER -