Hummon, W. D. & Kelly, J. L. (2011). Turbanella amphiatlantica, a new species of Gastrotricha (Macrodasyida) from eastern North America and northwest Europe. Meiofauna Marina, Vol. 18, pp. 61-70,

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Hummon, W. D.; Kelly, J. L.

2011

18: 61-70

Publication

http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/mm19_06.pdf

A new species, Turbanella amphiatlantica n. sp. is described, which has collection locations on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, in both the mid-Atlantic and northeasten United States and in both the British Isles and northwestern Europe. The descriptive materials include three independent drawings and five MPEG videos. Preliminary salinity tolerance experiments indicate a very high degree of euryosmotic capabilities, as do the estuarine and marine conditions under which it has been found. We consider to be T. amphiatlantica several instances of specimens provisionally identified as other species, e. g. Turbanella mustela or T. otti, leaving the published distributions of these two species as originally described, namely the eastern Pacific Ocean and the upper Adriatic Sea, respectively.

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