Tanarctus heterodactylus Renaud-Mornant 1980
- Dataset
- The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Arthrotardigrada
- family
- Halechiniscidae
- genus
- Tanarctus
- species
- Tanarctus heterodactylus
description
Tanarctus heterodactylus (Renaud-Mornant 1980) Terra typica: Atlantic Ocean (USA, North America) Atlantic Ocean: • 61 ° 17 ′ 42 ′′ N, 08 ° 32 ′ 18 ′′ W; 104 – 260 m bsl: [FAO 27] Faroe Islands, Faroe Bank, shell gravel, coarse shell gravel, fine carbonate sand, carbonate sand, or fine shell sand. Hansen et al. (2001) • 38 ° 48 ′ N, 75 ° 04 ′ W; 4 m bsl: [FAO 21] USA, Delaware State, Sussex County, mouth of Delaware Bay, The Shears, sublittoral sandy bar. Hummon (1994) • 34 ° 07.3 ′ N, 75 ° 57.7 ′ W / 34 ° 07 ′ N, 75 ° 58 ′ W; 400 m bsl: [FAO 31] Type locality: USA, North Carolina State, bathyal or abyssal depth, surface of sand, fine sand with 17 % clay. Renaud-Mornant (1980) • 4 ° 20 ′ S to 4 ° 50 ′ S, 36 ° 00 ′ W to 37 ° 15 ′ W [04 ° 35 ′ S, 36 ° 38 ′ W]; 20 – 100 m bsl: [FAO 41] Brazil, continental shelf off Ceará State and Rio Grande Do Norte State, fine to coarse quartz sand with detritus, and terrigenous mud. da Rocha et al. (2013) • 8 ° 25 ′ 10 ′′ S to 8 ° 25 ′ 20 ′′ S, 34 ° 55 ′ 00 ′′ W [08 ° 25 ′ S, 34 ° 58 ′ W]; 0 m bsl: [FAO 41] Brazil, Pernambuco State, Cupe beach, biogenic gravel or sandy-muddy sediment. da Rocha et al. (2013) • 23 ° 03 ′ S, 43 ° 17.3 ′ W / 23 ° 03 ′ S, 43 ° 17 ′ W; 22 m bsl: [FAO 41] Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, continental shelf off Rio de Janeiro, coarse sand. Renaud-Mornant (1980) Indian Ocean: • 12 ° 53 ′, 05 S, 45 ° 16 ′, 03 E [12 ° 53 ′ S, 45 ° 18 ′ E]; 275 – 400 m bsl: [FAO 51] Comoros Archipelago, Mozambique Channel, muddy sand. Renaud-Mornant (1984 a) Record numbers (Sea / Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 6, Indian Ocean: 1; total: 7. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO 21: 1, FAO 27: 1, FAO 31: 1, FAO 41: 3, FAO 51: 1; total: 7.
discussion
Remarks: In general this is a deep sea species mainly reported from below 200 m bsl. However, there are also reports at much shallower depths (0 to <100 m bsl) from off the coasts of Brazil and Delaware (USA).