Bauer-Nebelsick, M. (1995). Zelinkaderes klepali sp. n., from shallow water sands of the Red Sea (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida: Zelinkaderidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B Botanik und Zoologie. 97 B: 57-74.

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Bauer-Nebelsick, M.

1995

97 B: 57-74

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A new species of Zelinkaderes Higgins, 1990, (Cyclorhagida, Zelinkaderidae) is described by means of light and scanning electron microscopic techniques from subtidal sand between coral patches and seagrass habitat of the Red Sea. Zelinkaderes klepali sp.n. can be classified within the genus Zelinkaderes due to the following characters: neck consisting of 16 indistinct placids fused with the first trunk zonite; the first and second trunk zonite are complete rings; the third to tenth trunk zonite are provided with midventral articulations; a midterminal spine is present; middorsal spines occur on the trunk zonites four, six, eight to eleven; cuspidate spines are present; the oral styles are bipartite. The number of 69 scalids and their special pattern, the terminal trunk zonite in the form of four cuticular plates, and the occurrence and distribution of the lateral spines easily distinguish Z klepali sp.n. from the other Zelinkaderes species. A fine structural analysis of the cuticle reveals a new type of trunk cuticle, including a new type of midventral articulation, which is compared within kinorhynchs.

Red Sea

Biodiversity, Taxonomic and ecological diversity
Marine interstitial
Meiobenthos
Morphology
Scanning Electron Microscopy, S.E.M. Pictures

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