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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zotto MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5904343 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zotto Matteo Dal MD Leasi Francesca F Todaro M Antonio MA
ZooKeys 20180205 734
The study falls within the framework of a wider research programme aimed at investigating the gastrotrich diversity of the Tropical North-Western Atlantic (TNWA). A new macrodasyidan gastrotrich is described from fine-medium sand collected at Duncans Bay, Jamaica. The description is based on observations carried out on living specimens using differential interference contrast microscopy. <i>Paraturbanella xaymacana</i><b>sp. n.</b>, the third gastrotrich taxon reported from Jamaica, is a mid-siz ...[more]