Urnaloricus
| Urnaloricus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Loricifera |
| Order: | Nanaloricida |
| Family: | Urnaloricidae |
| Genus: | Urnaloricus Heiner & Møbjerg Kristensen, 2009 |
| Type species | |
| Urnaloricus gadi Heiner, 2009
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| Other species | |
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Urnaloricus is a genus of loricifera; it is distinct enough to belong to its own family, Urnaloricidae. Loricifera are a phylum of animals that live in marine areas only, and are very small in size. The Urnaloricus was found Southwest in the Faroe Islands, North Atlantic. It was the thirty-eighth loriciferan species found. One part of the life cycle is the Higgins larva and it is introverted with eight two-segmented clavoscalids.[1][2][3][4]
The genus includes:
- Urnaloricus gadi Heiner 2009
- Urnaloricus ibenae Neves 2018[1]
References
- ^ a b Neves, Ricardo C.; Kristensen, Reinhardt M.; Rohal, Melissa; Thistle, David; Sørensen, Martin V. (2019). "First report of Loricifera from the North East Pacific Region, with the description of two new species". Marine Biodiversity. 49 (3): 1151–1168. doi:10.1007/s12526-018-0898-1. ISSN 1867-1616. S2CID 255618186.
- ^ Heiner, & Kristensen, R. M. (2009). Urnaloricus gadi nov. gen. et nov. sp. (Loricifera, Urnaloricidae nov, fam.), an aberrant Loficifera with a viviparous pedogenetic life cycle. Journal of Morphology (1931), 270(2), 129-153.
- ^ Kristensen, Gooday, A.J., & Goineau, A. (2019). Loricifera inhabiting spherical aggluniated structures in the abyssal eastern equatorial Pacific nodule fields. Marine Biodiversity, 49(5), 2455-2466.
- ^ Neves, Kristensen, R. M., Rohal, M., Thistle, D., & Serensen, M. V. (2019). First report of Loricifera from the North East Pacific Region, with the description of two new species. Marine Biodiversity, 49(3), 1151-1168.