original description
Schulz, E. (1953). Eine neue Tardigraden-Gattung von der pazifischen Küste. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 151: 306-310. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Degma, P.; Bertolani, R.; Guidetti, R. (2009-2016). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species. (Assessed 10/02/2017) pp. 46., available online at http://www.tardigrada.modena.unimo.it/miscellanea/Actual%20checklist%20of%20Tardigrada.pdf [details]
additional source
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Horning, D.S.; Palma, R.L.; Miller, W.R. (2010). Phylum Tardigrada: water bears, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 27-35. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Distribution This species has a global distribution but is rather rare and known only from isolated sites down to ca. 100 m bsl (but most often from 0 to 20 m bsl). It has usually been found in different types of sand but occasionally also on algae growing on barnacles. [details]