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Batillipes dicrocercus Pollock, 1970

342641  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342641)

accepted
Species
marine
Pollock, L.W. (1970). Batillipes dicrocercus n. sp., Stygarctus granulatus n. sp. and other Tardigrada from Woods Hole, Massachussetts, USA. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 89, 38–52. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  USNM, geounit Buzzards Bay  
Holotype USNM, geounit Buzzards Bay [details]
Distribution Although the type locality of this taxon is on the Atlantic coast of the USA, most reports for this species
are from the...  
Distribution Although the type locality of this taxon is on the Atlantic coast of the USA, most reports for this species
are from the Mediterranean basin. There has also been some confusion in the records indicating that other
Batillipes taxa may belong to B. dicrocercus (see e.g. Maucci & Durante (1984), Hummon (1994) and
Rodriguez-Roda (1947, 1952) who recorded B. mirus in Spain). Similarly, some B. dicrocercus records may
belong to different taxa. For example, Hummon (1994) reported B. dicrocercus from Poland, which has been
questioned by Zawierucha et al. (2015), who suggested it belonged to B. noerrevangi. Batillipes dicrocercus
has been reported from different types of sand and detritus in the intertidal zone, and has occasionally been
collected in the subtidal down to ca. 80 m bsl. [details]
Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2024). World List of Tardigrada. Batillipes dicrocercus Pollock, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342641 on 2024-11-22
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2008-04-09 14:04:46Z
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2016-01-21 13:11:54Z
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original description Pollock, L.W. (1970). Batillipes dicrocercus n. sp., Stygarctus granulatus n. sp. and other Tardigrada from Woods Hole, Massachussetts, USA. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 89, 38–52. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details] 

additional source Romano III, F. A. 2009. Tardigrada of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 809–813 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

additional source Degma, P.; Bertolani, R.; Guidetti, R. (2009-2016). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species. (Assessed 10/02/2017) pp. 46., available online at http://www.tardigrada.modena.unimo.it/miscellanea/Actual%20checklist%20of%20Tardigrada.pdf [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype USNM, geounit Buzzards Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Although the type locality of this taxon is on the Atlantic coast of the USA, most reports for this species
are from the Mediterranean basin. There has also been some confusion in the records indicating that other
Batillipes taxa may belong to B. dicrocercus (see e.g. Maucci & Durante (1984), Hummon (1994) and
Rodriguez-Roda (1947, 1952) who recorded B. mirus in Spain). Similarly, some B. dicrocercus records may
belong to different taxa. For example, Hummon (1994) reported B. dicrocercus from Poland, which has been
questioned by Zawierucha et al. (2015), who suggested it belonged to B. noerrevangi. Batillipes dicrocercus
has been reported from different types of sand and detritus in the intertidal zone, and has occasionally been
collected in the subtidal down to ca. 80 m bsl. [details]
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