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Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). Cladistics. 32(5): 479-505.

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10.1111/cla.12143 [view]

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Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A.

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2016

Title

Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae)

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Cladistics

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32(5): 479-505

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Abstract

Kinorhyncha is a group of benthic, microscopic animals distributed worldwide in marine sediments. The phylum is divided into two classes, Cyclorhagida and Allomalorhagida, congruent with the two major clades recovered in recent phylogenetic analyses. Allomalorhagida accommodates more than one-third of the described species, most of them assigned to the family Pycnophyidae. All previous phylogenetic analyses of the phylum recovered the two genera within Pycnophyidae, Pycnophyes and Kinorhynchus, as paraphyletic and polyphyletic. A major problem in these studies was the lack of molecular data of most pycnophyids, due to the limited and highly localized distribution of most species, often in the Arctic and the deep-sea. We here overcame the problem by adding a morphological partition with data for 79 Pycnophyidae species, 15 of them also represented by molecular data. Model-based analyses yielded seven clades, which each was supported by several morphological apomorphies. Accordingly, Kinorhynchus is synonymized with Pycnophyes and six new genera are described for the remaining recovered clades: Leiocanthus gen. nov., Cristaphyes gen. nov., Higginsium gen. nov., Krakenella gen. nov., Setaphyes gen. nov. and Fujuriphyes gen. nov.

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Marine interstitial
Meiobenthos
Molecular systematics, Molecular biology
Morphology
Phylogeny, Phylogenesis

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Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5093, geounit Shirahama, identified as Echinoderes sensibilis Adrianov, Murakami & Shirayama, 2002
Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5094, geounit Seto Inland Sea, identified as Echinoderes rex Lundbye, Rho & Sørensen, 2011
Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5097, geounit Gulf of Naples (Italy), identified as Pycnophyes flaveolatus Zelinka, 1908
Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5098, geounit Spanish part of the Strait of Gibraltar, identified as Pycnophyes dentatus (Reinhard, 1881)
Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5099, geounit Portuguese part of the North Atlantic Ocean, identified as Pycnophyes robustus Zelinka, 1928
Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5100, geounit Gulf of Naples (Italy), identified as Pycnophyes zelinkaei Southern, 1914
Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5101, geounit Okinawa Island, identified as Pycnophyes tubuliferus Adrianov, 1989
Nontype ICHUM ZIHU (ICHUM) 5102, geounit Hokkaido, identified as Kinorhynchus yushini Adrianov, 1989

Etymology

for Cristaphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

From Latin crista crest, + Greek phyes, the commonly used sufﬁx in names of Allomalorhagid genera. The name ... [details]

Etymology

for Fujuriphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

From Fujur, the dog-dragon in the novel The Never-ending Story by M. Ende + Greek phyes, the commonly used sufﬁx ... [details]

Etymology

for Higginsium Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

To honour Dr Robert P. Higgins, a primary researcher on the phylum Kinorhyncha during the second half of the 20th ... [details]

Etymology

for Krakenella Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

From Kraken, marine monster of the Scandinavian mythology + Latin -ella diminutive sufﬁx. Feminine gender. [details]

Etymology

for Leiocanthus Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

From Greek leio, smooth, even and kanthus, edge, border. Masculine gender. [details]

Etymology

for Setaphyes Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

From Latin seta, seta, hair + Greek phyes, the commonly used sufﬁx in names of Allomalorhagid genera. The name ... [details]

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