Styraconyx testudo D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, Zootaxa 4037 (1), pp. 1-189 : 111

118. Styraconyx testudo D'Addabbo Gallo, Grimaldi de Zio & Morone De Lucia, 1984

Styraconyx testudo n. sp. (D'Addabbo Gallo at al. 1984)

S. testudo D’Addabbo Gallo et al. 1984 (D’Addabbo Gallo et al. 1987, Grimaldi de Zio & D’Addabbo Gallo 1987, D’Addabbo Gallo et al. 1989)

Styraconyx testudo D'Addabbo Gallo et al., 1984 (Grimaldi de Zio & D’Addabbo Gallo 2001) Terra typica: Ionian Sea ( Italy, Europe)

Ionian Sea:

• 40°29′00′′N, 17°03′25′′E; 15 m bsl: [FAO37] Italy, Tarento Province, off the coast of Taranto, Secca dell’Armeleia, Amphioxus debris. D’Addabbo Gallo et al. (1984)

• 39°52′00′′N, 16°42′30′′E; 40–100 m bsl: [FAO37] Type Locality: Italy, Cosenza Province, High Ionian Sea offshore, Calabrian Coast, Amendolara Shoal, coarse debris. D’Addabbo Gallo et al. (1984), D’Addabbo Gallo et al. (1987), Grimaldi de Zio & D’Addabbo Gallo (1987), Grimaldi de Zio et al. (2003)

Tyrrhenian Sea:

• 40°20′30′′N, 09°40′15′′E; 0–80 m bsl: [FAO37] Italy, Sardinia Island, Nuoro Province, Orosei Gulf, pure sand, coastal organogenic debris, coralligenous debris mud or Posidonia seagrass meadows. D’Addabbo Gallo et al. (1989), Grimaldi de Zio & D’Addabbo Gallo (2001)

Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Ionian Sea: 2, Tyrrhenian Sea: 1; total: 3.

Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO37: 3; total: 3.

Remarks: This is a Mediterranean species from the hallasi group reported from different substrates in a few subtidal localities.