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Fujimoto, S. (2015). Quisarctus yasumurai gen. et sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada: Halechiniscidae) from a submarine cave, off Iejima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa. 3948(1): 145.
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Fujimoto, S.
2015
<em>Quisarctus</em> <em>yasumurai</em> gen. et sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada: Halechiniscidae) from a submarine cave, off Iejima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Zootaxa
3948(1): 145
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Quisarctus yasumurai gen. et sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada: Halechiniscidae) is described from the submarine cave ‘Daidokutsu’,
off Iejima, Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. It is characterised by a cylindrical body, long primary clava and shorter lateral cirrus inserted on a common cirrophore, and simple digits of unequal lengths (without folds, peduncles, proximal pads, pretarsi, or wrinkles) that terminate in a sheathed, small, crescent-shaped claw with a minute calcar. Quisarctinae
subfam. nov. is erected for this unique new genus.
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Quisarctinae Fujimoto, 2015 (original description)
Quisarctus Fujimoto, 2015 (original description)
Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015 (original description)
Quisarctus Fujimoto, 2015 (original description)
Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015 (original description)
Okinawa Island for Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015
Holotype KUZ Z1649, identified as Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015
Paratype KUZ Z1650,, identified as Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015
Paratype KUZ Z1651, identified as Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015
Paratype KUZ Z1650,, identified as Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015
Paratype KUZ Z1651, identified as Quisarctus yasumurai Fujimoto, 2015