Nomenclature
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van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
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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
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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]