Danish Marine Gastrotricha

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Danish marine Gastrotricha (including Greenland and Faroe Islands) By: Tobias Kånneby, Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, PO Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden

This list is based on the following works: Remane (1932; 1951; 1954), Karling (1954), Forneris (1961), Fenchel et al. (1967), Fenchel (1969), Mock (1979), Kristensen & Nørrevang (1982), Ax (1993), Clausen (2004), Todaro et al. (2005), Grilli et al. (2009). Full references at end of document.

Phylum Gastrotricha Metchnikoff, 1865 Order Chaetonotida Remane, 1925 [Rao & Clausen, 1970] Suborder Paucitubulatina d’Hondt, 1971 Family Chaetonotidae Gosse, 1864 Subfamily Chaetonotinae Gosse, 1864 Genus Aspidiophorus Voigt, 1903 1. Aspidiophorus mediterraneus Remane, 1927 Rømø

Genus Chaetonotus Ehrenberg, 1830 Subgenus Chaetonotus (Schizochaetonotus) Schwank, 1990 2. Chaetonotus (Schizochaetonotus) atrox Wilke, 1954 Rømø

Genus Halichaetonotus Remane, 1936 3. Halichaetonotus aculifer (Gerlach, 1953) Faroe bank, Faroe Islands; Norujuk, Greenland; Rømø

4. Halichaetonotus pleuracanthus (Remane, 1926) Vejsnäs Flach

5. Halichaetonotus somniculosus (Mock, 1979) Rømø

Genus Heterolepidoderma Remane, 1927 6. Heterolepidoderma caudosquamatum Grilli, Kristensen & Balsamo, 2009 Copenhagen docklands, Copenhagen

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Family Muselliferidae Leasi & Todaro Genus Diuronotos Todaro, Balsamo & Kristensen, 2005 7. Diuronotos aspetos Todaro, Balsamo & Kristensen, 2005 Kiglugassaitsut, Greenland

8. Diuronotus rupperti Todaro, Balsamo & Kristensen, 2005 Läsø

Family Xenotrichulidae Remane, 1927 Subfamily Draculiciterinae Ruppert, 1979 Genus Draculiciteria Hummon, 1974 9. Draculiciteria tesselata (Renaud-Mornant, 1968) Rømø

Subfamily Xenotrichulinae Remane, 1927 Genus Heteroxenotrichula Wilke, 1954 10. Heteroxenotrichula affinis (Remane, 1934) Rømø

11. Heteroxenotrichula squamosa Wilke, 1954 Rømø

Genus Xenotrichula Remane, 1927 12. Xenotrichula intermedia Remane, 1934 Rømø

13. Xenotrichula velox Remane, 1927 Rømø

Order Macrodasyida Remane, 1925 [Rao & Clausen, 1970] Family Cephalodasyidae Hummon & Todaro, 2010 Genus Cephalodasys Remane, 1926 14. Cephalodasys maximus Remane, 1926 Alsgarde; Langeland Belt

Genus Mesodasys Remane, 1951

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15. Mesodasys laticaudatus Remane, 1951 Vejsnäs Flach

Family Dactylopodolidae Strand, 1929 Genus Dactylopodola Strand, 1929 16. Dactylopodola cornuta (Swedmark, 1956) Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

17. Dactylopodola baltica (Remane, 1926) Langeland Belt; Vejsnäs Flach

18. Dactylopodola typhle (Remane, 1927) Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands; Gustav Flach; Langeland Belt; Vejsnäs Flach

Family Lepidodasyidae Remane, 1927 Genus Lepidodasys Remane, 1926 19. Lepidodasys arcolepis Clausen, 2004 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

20. Lepidodasys castoroides Clausen, 2004 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

21. Lepidodasys martini Remane, 1926 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands; Langeland Belt; Vejsnäs Flach

Family Macrodasyidae Remane, 1926 Genus Macrodasys Remane, 1924 22. Macrodasys buddenbrocki Remane, 1924 Gustav Flach; Langeland Belt; Vejsnäs Flach; Vodrups Flach

Genus Urodasys Remane, 1926 23. Urodasys mirabilis Remane, 1926 Vejsnäs Flach; Vodrups Flach

Family Thaumastodermatidae Remane, 1927 Subfamily Diplodasyinae Ruppert, 1978 Genus Diplodasys Remane, 1927

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24. Diplodasys ankeli Wilke, 1954 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

Subfamily Thaumastodermatinae Remane, 1927 Genus Oregodasys Hummon, 2008 25. Oregodasys mastigurus Clausen, 1965 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

26. Oregodasys maximus (Remane, 1927) Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

27. Oregodasys ocellatus Clausen, 1965 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

Genus Pseudostomella Swedmark, 1956 28. Pseudostomella faroensis Clausen, 2004 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

Genus Ptychostomella Remane, 1926 29. Ptychostomella brachycephala (Lévi, 1954) Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

30. Ptychostomella higginsi Clausen, 2004 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

31. Ptychostomella ommatophora Remane, 1927 Langeland Belt

32. Ptychostomella pectinata Remane, 1926 Langeland Belt

Genus Tetranchyroderma Remane, 1926 33. Tetranchyroderma faroense Clausen, 2004 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

34. Tetranchyroderma hystrix Remane, 1926 Gustav Flach; Vejsnäs Flach; Vodrups Flach

Genus Thaumastoderma Remane, 1926

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35. Thaumastoderma heideri Remane, 1926 Gustav Flach; Langeland Belt; Vejsnäs Flach

36. Thaumastoderma moebjergi Clausen, 2004 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands; Chlamys Bank, Faroe Islands

37. Thaumastoderma renaudae Kisielewski, 1987 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

Family Turbanellidae Remane, 1927 Genus Paraturbanella Remane, 1927 38. Paraturbanella dohrni Remane, 1927 Langeland Belt

Genus Turbanella Schultze, 1853 39. Turbanella cornuta Remane, 1925 Vágar Island, Faroe Islands; Alsgarde; Helsingør; Julbæk

40. Turbanella hyalina Schultze, 1853 Fänö

41. Turbanella lutheri remane, 1952 Stremoy Island, Faroe Islands

Family Xenodasyidae Todaro, Guidi, Leasi & Tongiorgi, 2006 Genus Xenodasys Swedmark, 1967 42. Xenodasys sanctigoulveni Swedmark, 1967 Faroe Bank, Faroe Islands

References Ax, P. (1993) Turbanella lutheri (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyoida) im Brackwasser der Färöer. Microfauna Marina, 8, 139-144. Clausen, C. (2004) A new species of Acanthodasys (Gastrotricha: Thaumastodermatidae) from the west coast of Norway. Sarsia, 89, 137-141. Fenchel, T. (1969) The ecology of marine microbenthos. IV. Structure and function of the benthic ecosystem, its chemical and physical factors and the microfauna communities with special reference to the ciliated Protozoa. Ophelia, 6: 1-182.

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Fenchel, T., Jansson, B-O. & Thun, W. von (1967). Vertical and horizontal distribution of the metazoan microfauna and of some physical factors in a sandy beach in the northern part of the Øresund. Ophelia, 4, 227-243 Forneris, L. 1961. Beitraege zur Gastrotrichenfauna der Nord- und Ostsee. Kieler Meeresforschung, 17, 206-218. Grilli, P., Kristensen, R. M., Balsamo, M. (2009) Heterolepidoderma caudosquamatum (Gastrotricha. Chaetonotida), a new species from brackish waters of Denmark. Zootaxa, 2173, 49-54.

Karling, T. G. (1954) Über einige Kleintiere des Meeressandes des Nordsee-Ostsee- Gebietes. Arkiv för Zoologi, 14, 241-249. Kristensen, R. M. & Nørrevang, A. (1982): Description of Psammodrilus aedificator sp. n. (Polychaeta), with notes on the arctic interstitial fauna of Disko Island, W. Greenland. Zoologica Scripta 11, 265-279. Mock, H. (1979) Chaetonotoidea (Gastrotricha) der Nordseeinsel Sylt. Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens, 78, 405-507. Remane, A (1932) Die Rotatorien, Gastrotrichen, Kinorhynchen und Archianneliden der Arktis. Fauna Arctica, 6, 95-114. Remane, A. (1951) Mesodasys, ein neues Genus der Gastrotricha Macrodasyoidea aus der Kieler Bucht. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 8, 102-105. Remane, A. (1954) Zwei "mediterrane" Tierarten in der Kieler Bucht. Faunistische Mitteilungen aus Norddeutschland, 4, 12. Todaro, M. A., Balsamo, M. & Kristensen, R. M. (2005) A new genus of marine chaetonotids (Gastrotricha) with a description of two new species from Greenland and Denmark. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85, 1391-1400.

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