URMO taxon details
Dracoderes abei Higgins & Shirayama, 1990
265921 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:265921)
accepted
Species
marine
Higgins, R. P.; Shirayama, Y. (1990). Dracoderidae, a new family of the cyclorhagid Kinorhyncha from the Inland Sea of Japan. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 7: 939-946. [details] Available for editors 
Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Dracoderes abei Higgins & Shirayama, 1990. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265921 on 2025-06-12
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Dracoderes abei Higgins & Shirayama, 1990. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265921 on 2025-06-12
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Higgins, R. P.; Shirayama, Y. (1990). Dracoderidae, a new family of the cyclorhagid Kinorhyncha from the Inland Sea of Japan. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 7: 939-946. [details] Available for editors
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 Yamasaki, H.; Kajihara, H. (2012). A new brackish-water species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 17: 109-118. [details] Available for editors
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
note: Synonymy according to Neuhaus (2013, p. 279): D. abei Higgins & Shirayama, 1990: pp. 940–946, Figs 1–5, type species by original designation; Sørensen et al. 2012: pp. 214–222, Figs 2–6, Tabs 2–3, r...
[details] Available for editors
additional source Yamasaki, H. (2015). Two new species of <em>Dracoderes</em> (Kinorhyncha: Dracoderidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3980(3): 359-378., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.2
note: unknown number of specimens, unknown if deposited in a collection: GenBank accession number for cytochrom c oxdase subunit I: LC032112 [details] Available for editors
additional source Yamasaki, H.; Hiruta, S. F.; Kajihara, H. (2013). Molecular phylogeny of kinorhynchs. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 67(2): 303-310., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.016
note: Hologenophore ZIHU (ICHUM) 4290, GenBank accession numbers for 18S rRNA: AB748350 and for 28S rRNA: AB738351. [details] Available for editors
redescription S�rensen, M. V.; Herranz, M.; Rho, H. S.; Min, W.-G.; Yamasaki, H.; S�nchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2012). On the genus Dracoderes Higgins & Shirayama, 1990 (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) with a redescription of its type species, D. abei, and a description of a new species from Spain. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 8(3): 210-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2011.615328
note: The coordinates of the following stations are erroneus and should read degrees°minutes.decimal' instead of degrees°minutes'seconds'': St. 3, St. 4, St. 7, St. 8, MAP-14, MAP-15, MAP-25 and MAP-30 (per...
[details] Available for editors
biology source Herranz, M.; S�rensen, M. V.; Park, T.; Leander, B. S.; Worsaae, K. (2020). Insights into mud dragon morphology (Kinorhyncha, Allomalorhagida): myoanatomy and neuroanatomy of Dracoderes abei and Pycnophyes ilyocryptus. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 20(3): 467-493., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-020-00447-y
note: CLSM study of muscular and nervous system. [details] Available for editors
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 Yamasaki, H.; Kajihara, H. (2012). A new brackish-water species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 17: 109-118. [details] Available for editors
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
note: Synonymy according to Neuhaus (2013, p. 279): D. abei Higgins & Shirayama, 1990: pp. 940–946, Figs 1–5, type species by original designation; Sørensen et al. 2012: pp. 214–222, Figs 2–6, Tabs 2–3, r...
Synonymy according to Neuhaus (2013, p. 279):
D. abei Higgins & Shirayama, 1990: pp. 940–946, Figs 1–5, type species by original designation;
Sørensen et al. 2012: pp. 214–222, Figs 2–6, Tabs 2–3, redescription
additional source Yamasaki, H. (2015). Two new species of <em>Dracoderes</em> (Kinorhyncha: Dracoderidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3980(3): 359-378., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.2
note: unknown number of specimens, unknown if deposited in a collection: GenBank accession number for cytochrom c oxdase subunit I: LC032112 [details] Available for editors
additional source Yamasaki, H.; Hiruta, S. F.; Kajihara, H. (2013). Molecular phylogeny of kinorhynchs. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 67(2): 303-310., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.02.016
note: Hologenophore ZIHU (ICHUM) 4290, GenBank accession numbers for 18S rRNA: AB748350 and for 28S rRNA: AB738351. [details] Available for editors
redescription S�rensen, M. V.; Herranz, M.; Rho, H. S.; Min, W.-G.; Yamasaki, H.; S�nchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2012). On the genus Dracoderes Higgins & Shirayama, 1990 (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) with a redescription of its type species, D. abei, and a description of a new species from Spain. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 8(3): 210-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2011.615328
note: The coordinates of the following stations are erroneus and should read degrees°minutes.decimal' instead of degrees°minutes'seconds'': St. 3, St. 4, St. 7, St. 8, MAP-14, MAP-15, MAP-25 and MAP-30 (per...
The coordinates of the following stations are erroneus and should read degrees°minutes.decimal' instead of degrees°minutes'seconds'': St. 3, St. 4, St. 7, St. 8, MAP-14, MAP-15, MAP-25 and MAP-30 (personal communication with authors VI.2020).
biology source Herranz, M.; S�rensen, M. V.; Park, T.; Leander, B. S.; Worsaae, K. (2020). Insights into mud dragon morphology (Kinorhyncha, Allomalorhagida): myoanatomy and neuroanatomy of Dracoderes abei and Pycnophyes ilyocryptus. <em>Organisms Diversity & Evolution.</em> 20(3): 467-493., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-020-00447-y
note: CLSM study of muscular and nervous system. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype Private uncatalogued, geounit East China Sea [details]
