Several specimens of Musellifer profundus were found during a survey of the meiobenthos in the Northern Adriatic Sea. The finding bears relevance with respect to the biogeography and biology of marine gastrotricha as it widens the distributional boundaries of a rare species (thus far known only from the North and Baltic seas and from off Marseille), at the same time allowing new insights into the arrangement and functioning of the hermaphroditic sexual apparatus in a genus for which data in this regard are scanty.
First record of Musellifer profundus (Gastrotricha) in the Italian seas / Leasi, F.; VIRNO LAMBERTI, C.; Todaro, Mary Antonio Donatello. - In: BIOLOGIA MARINA MEDITERRANEA. - ISSN 1123-4245. - STAMPA. - 13:(2006), pp. 190-191.
First record of Musellifer profundus (Gastrotricha) in the Italian seas.
TODARO, Mary Antonio Donatello
2006
Abstract
Several specimens of Musellifer profundus were found during a survey of the meiobenthos in the Northern Adriatic Sea. The finding bears relevance with respect to the biogeography and biology of marine gastrotricha as it widens the distributional boundaries of a rare species (thus far known only from the North and Baltic seas and from off Marseille), at the same time allowing new insights into the arrangement and functioning of the hermaphroditic sexual apparatus in a genus for which data in this regard are scanty.
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