Angursa capsula Bussau, 1992

N= 680 specimens occurrence: ANDEEP I, II, III, ANDEEP-SYSTCO; 1,088–5,213 m bsl.

Fig. 8 E–F; Supplementary Table 1.6

Short description

Angursa with a slender body (120–176 µm long, 20–30 µm width, n=5) and primary clavae longer than cirri A. Distance between both secondary clavae on the dorsal side of the head is 6.3–11.0 μm (Fig. 8E, E 2). Capsules-like sensory organs on legs IV (Fig. 8F). Cirri E long (13.0–19.0 µm, n=5) (Fig. 8E).

Remarks

One of the most difficult species to identify because of unclear borders of the secondary clavae. On the sagittal position of the specimen we mostly used the length of cirri E as a species-specific trait, which are longer than 11 µm (Hansen & Fujimoto 2019).