Sönmez, S.; Köruglu, N. Ö.; Karaytug, S. (2016). First record of the family Echinoderidae Zelinka, 1894 (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Turkish marine waters. Biharean Biology. 10 (1): 8-11 (article e151205).
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Sönmez, S.; Köruglu, N. Ö.; Karaytug, S.
2016
First record of the family Echinoderidae Zelinka, 1894 (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Turkish marine waters
During a survey along the Aegean Coast of Turkey, two kinorhynch species which are closely related to Echinoderes gerardi and Echinoderes bispinosus were encountered. The two species are photographed with light microscopy and described briefly. Although the phylum as well as the genus have been known more than 150 years from the Mediterranean Sea, the presence of species of the family Echinoderidae at Turkey have not been reported previously. Therefore this is the first record of the family Echinoderidae from Turkish marine waters and also the first record of the Phylum Kinorhyncha from the Aegean Sea Coast of Turkey.
Mediterranean Sea in general
Biodiversity, Taxonomic and ecological diversity
Fauna and Flora, Faunistic inventories, Checklists, Catalogues
Marine interstitial
Meiobenthos
Morphology
Systematics, Taxonomy
