{"title":"Sphenoderes japonicus sp. nov. – The first deep water representative of the family Semnoderidae (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) in the sea of Japan","authors":"A.V. Adrianov , A.S. Maiorova","doi":"10.1016/j.jcz.2024.10.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A new species of semnoderid kinorhynchs, <em>Sphenoderes japonicus</em> sp. nov. collected from oxidized brown silt on the steep slope of the deepest depression in the Sea of Japan, Northwestern Pacific, is described using light and scanning electron microscopy. This new representative of the family Semnoderidae is characterized by the structure of the first trunk segment consisting of externally closed cuticular ring with indistinct intracuticular tergosternal junctions. Cuticular ring of the first trunk segment is with deep and narrow middorsal incision and much broader midventral incision filled by large midventral placid. Acicular lateroventral spines on trunk segments 3–9. Lateroventral accessory spines are minute, only on trunk segment 5. Trunk segment 10 with acicular spines in laterodorsal position in female and in midlateral position in male. <em>S. japonicus</em> sp. nov. constitutes the first bathial species of this family and the first species of Semnoderidae in the Sea of Japan.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49332,"journal":{"name":"Zoologischer Anzeiger","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zoologischer Anzeiger","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044523124000949","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ZOOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A new species of semnoderid kinorhynchs, Sphenoderes japonicus sp. nov. collected from oxidized brown silt on the steep slope of the deepest depression in the Sea of Japan, Northwestern Pacific, is described using light and scanning electron microscopy. This new representative of the family Semnoderidae is characterized by the structure of the first trunk segment consisting of externally closed cuticular ring with indistinct intracuticular tergosternal junctions. Cuticular ring of the first trunk segment is with deep and narrow middorsal incision and much broader midventral incision filled by large midventral placid. Acicular lateroventral spines on trunk segments 3–9. Lateroventral accessory spines are minute, only on trunk segment 5. Trunk segment 10 with acicular spines in laterodorsal position in female and in midlateral position in male. S. japonicus sp. nov. constitutes the first bathial species of this family and the first species of Semnoderidae in the Sea of Japan.
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