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Cateria styx Gerlach, 1956
265848 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:265848)
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marine
Gerlach, S. A. (1956). Über einen aberranten Vertreter der Kinorhynchen aus dem Küstengrundwasser. <em>Kieler Meeresforschungen.</em> 12(1): 120-124. [details] Available for editors 
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Lectotype USNM W36125, geounit Rio De Janeiro
Lectotype USNM W36125, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
Etymology [The name of the species was derived from Latin Styx, a river in Arcadia, symbolic for the underworld or Hades, and...
Etymology [The name of the species was derived from Latin Styx, a river in Arcadia, symbolic for the underworld or Hades, and referred to the location of the species deep in the sediment.] [details]
Neuhaus, B. (2024). World Kinorhyncha Database. Cateria styx Gerlach, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265848 on 2024-05-26
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Gerlach, S. A. (1956). Über einen aberranten Vertreter der Kinorhynchen aus dem Küstengrundwasser. <em>Kieler Meeresforschungen.</em> 12(1): 120-124. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Rao, G. Chandrasekhara & P.N. Ganapati. (1968). The interstitial fauna inhabiting the beach sands of Waltair Coast. <em>Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, Part B Biological Sciences.</em> 34: 82-125., available online at https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol34B_1968_2_Art02.pdf
note: Probably not Cateria styx but C. gerlachi according to Neuhaus and Kegel (2015, p.63). [details]
additional source Delamare-Deboutteville, C. (1957). Sur la présence des Echinodères de la famille des Cateriidae Gerlach dans les eaux souterraines littorales de l'Angola. <em>Publiçacoes Culturais, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (DIAMANG).</em> 34: 33-37. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sterrer, W. E. (1973). Plate tectonics as a mechanism for dispersal and speciation in interstitial sand fauna. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, 7: 200-222, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0077-7579(73)90045-8
note: The article reported inter alia about the amphiatlantic occurrence of Cateria styx in Brazil and Angola. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rao, C; Ganapati, P. N. (1966). Occurrence of an aberrant kinorhynch Cateria styx Gerlach, in Waltair beach sands. <em>Current Science.</em> 35(8): 212-213.
note: Probably not Cateria styx but C. gerlachi according to Neuhaus and Kegel (2015, p.63). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rao, G. C. (1972). On the geographical distribution of interstitial fauna of marine beach sand. <em>Proceedings of the Indian National Institute of Sciences of India, Part B, Biological Science.</em> 38 (3-4): 164-178., available online at https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol38B_1972_3and4_Art04.pdf
note: Probably not Cateria styx but C. gerlachi according to Neuhaus and Kegel (2015, p.63). [details]
additional source Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Herranz, M.; Di Domenico, M.; Sørensen, M. V.; Leander, B. S. (2019). The enigmatic kinorhynch Cateria styx Gerlach, 1956 – A sticky son of a beach. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 282: 10-30., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2019.05.016
note: Redescription: pp. 12-19, figs 1-11, tabs 1-2. [details]
redescription Neuhaus, B.; Kegel, A. (2015). Redescription of <em>Cateria</em> <em>gerlachi</em> (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) from Sri Lanka and of <em>C. styx</em> from Brazil, with notes on<em> C. gerlachi</em> from India and <em>C. styx</em> from Chile, and the ground pattern of the genus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3965(1): 1-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3965.1.1
note: Redescription: pp. 44-59, figs 18, 20-28, tabs 1, 4, 6-11. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Higgins, R. P. (1968). Taxonomy and postembryonic development of the Cryptorhagae, a new suborder for the mesopsammic kinorhynch genus Cateria. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 87(1): 21-39. [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Herranz, M.; Worsaae, K.; Park, T.; Di Domenico, M.; Leander, B. S.; Sørensen, M. V. (2021). Myoanatomy of three aberrant kinorhynch species: similar but different?. <em>Zoomorphology.</em> 140(2): 193-215., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-021-00519-3
note: CLSM study of muscular system. [details] Available for editors [request]
biology source Herranz, M.; Park, T.; Di Domenico, M.; Leander, B. S.; Sørensen, M. V.; Worsaae, K. (2021). Revisiting kinorhynch segmentation: variation of segmental patterns in the nervous system of three aberrant species. <em>Frontiers in Zoology.</em> 18, 54: 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-021-00438-5
note: CLSM study of nervous system. [details]
[request] basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Rao, G. Chandrasekhara & P.N. Ganapati. (1968). The interstitial fauna inhabiting the beach sands of Waltair Coast. <em>Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, Part B Biological Sciences.</em> 34: 82-125., available online at https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol34B_1968_2_Art02.pdf
note: Probably not Cateria styx but C. gerlachi according to Neuhaus and Kegel (2015, p.63). [details]
additional source Delamare-Deboutteville, C. (1957). Sur la présence des Echinodères de la famille des Cateriidae Gerlach dans les eaux souterraines littorales de l'Angola. <em>Publiçacoes Culturais, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (DIAMANG).</em> 34: 33-37. [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Sterrer, W. E. (1973). Plate tectonics as a mechanism for dispersal and speciation in interstitial sand fauna. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, 7: 200-222, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0077-7579(73)90045-8
note: The article reported inter alia about the amphiatlantic occurrence of Cateria styx in Brazil and Angola. [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Rao, C; Ganapati, P. N. (1966). Occurrence of an aberrant kinorhynch Cateria styx Gerlach, in Waltair beach sands. <em>Current Science.</em> 35(8): 212-213.
note: Probably not Cateria styx but C. gerlachi according to Neuhaus and Kegel (2015, p.63). [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Rao, G. C. (1972). On the geographical distribution of interstitial fauna of marine beach sand. <em>Proceedings of the Indian National Institute of Sciences of India, Part B, Biological Science.</em> 38 (3-4): 164-178., available online at https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol38B_1972_3and4_Art04.pdf
note: Probably not Cateria styx but C. gerlachi according to Neuhaus and Kegel (2015, p.63). [details]
additional source Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors
[request] redescription Herranz, M.; Di Domenico, M.; Sørensen, M. V.; Leander, B. S. (2019). The enigmatic kinorhynch Cateria styx Gerlach, 1956 – A sticky son of a beach. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 282: 10-30., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2019.05.016
note: Redescription: pp. 12-19, figs 1-11, tabs 1-2. [details]
redescription Neuhaus, B.; Kegel, A. (2015). Redescription of <em>Cateria</em> <em>gerlachi</em> (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) from Sri Lanka and of <em>C. styx</em> from Brazil, with notes on<em> C. gerlachi</em> from India and <em>C. styx</em> from Chile, and the ground pattern of the genus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3965(1): 1-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3965.1.1
note: Redescription: pp. 44-59, figs 18, 20-28, tabs 1, 4, 6-11. [details] Available for editors
[request] redescription Higgins, R. P. (1968). Taxonomy and postembryonic development of the Cryptorhagae, a new suborder for the mesopsammic kinorhynch genus Cateria. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 87(1): 21-39. [details] Available for editors
[request] biology source Herranz, M.; Worsaae, K.; Park, T.; Di Domenico, M.; Leander, B. S.; Sørensen, M. V. (2021). Myoanatomy of three aberrant kinorhynch species: similar but different?. <em>Zoomorphology.</em> 140(2): 193-215., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-021-00519-3
note: CLSM study of muscular system. [details] Available for editors
[request] biology source Herranz, M.; Park, T.; Di Domenico, M.; Leander, B. S.; Sørensen, M. V.; Worsaae, K. (2021). Revisiting kinorhynch segmentation: variation of segmental patterns in the nervous system of three aberrant species. <em>Frontiers in Zoology.</em> 18, 54: 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-021-00438-5
note: CLSM study of nervous system. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Lectotype USNM W36125, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Angolan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Angolan Exclusive Economic Zone (not certain) [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Bay of Bengal [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Orissa [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Orissa [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Visakhapatnam [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Visakhapatnam [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Visakhapatnam [details]
Nontype uncatalogued, geounit Visakhapatnam [details]
Nontype USNM 1226589 - 1226593, geounit Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 1226594 - 1226597, geounit Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM W36123, W36124, 1226555 - 1226588, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
Paralectotype USNM W36126, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
Syntype USNM W36125, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
Syntype USNM W36126, geounit Rio De Janeiro [details]
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Etymology [The name of the species was derived from Latin Styx, a river in Arcadia, symbolic for the underworld or Hades, and referred to the location of the species deep in the sediment.] [details]Synonymy Synonymy according to Neuhaus (2013, p. 287):
Gerlach 1969: p. 162, not C. styx of Rao & Ganapati (1966, 1968) but C. gerlachi;
pers. obs. R. P. Higgins: not C. styx of Nagabhushanan (1972) and of Rao (1972) from India but C. gerlachi. [details]
