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The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)
Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes form a clade called Rouphozoa. Representatives of both taxa are main components of meiofaunal communities, but their role in the trophic ecology of marine and freshwater commun...
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Open AccessIntegrative taxonomy of a new Redudasys species (Gastrotricha: Macrodasyida) sheds light on the invasion of fresh water habitats by macrodasyids
The order Macrodasyida (Gastrotricha) includes over 350 marine species, and only 3 freshwater species (Marinellina flagellata, Redudasys fornerise, R. neotemperatus). Herein we describe a new freshwater species o...
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Meiofaunal assemblages of the bay of Nisida and the environmental status of the Phlegraean area (Naples, Southern Italy)
Nisida is an islet of volcanic origin of the Phlegraean archipelago (Southern Italy) that has been included in the General Reserve of the Regional Park of Phlegraean Islands. The islet has been inaccessible bo...
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Assessment of ecological quality status along the Apulian coasts (eastern Mediterranean Sea) based on meiobenthic and nematode assemblages
Coastal environments may be impacted by several anthropogenic activities such as sewage discharges, fish-farming and hydrocarbons along with seaside tourism activities, all proved to have an effect on benthic ...
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An approach based on nematode descriptors for the classification of ecological quality (EcoQ) of the Malaysian coasts
Free-living marine nematodes were employed in ecological studies and were proven to be suitable bioindicators of pollution-induced effects on the benthic domain. This study represents the first attempt to use ...
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Erratum to: A new species of Pseudostomella (Gastrotricha, Thaumastodermatidae) from Brazil
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A new species of Pseudostomodella (Gastrotricha, Thaumastodermatidae) from Brazil
A new species of Pseudostomella is described from sublittoral sands of the southern coast of Bahia State, Brazil. Pseudostomella squamalongispinosa sp. nov. is 310–320 μm long and is distinguished from its congen...
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A fresh look at Dinodasys mirabilis (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida), with focus on the reproductive apparatus and sperm ultrastructure
Adults of Dinodasys mirabilis were studied for the first time. The specimens, collected from the west coast of Sweden, were investigated alive and with electron microscopy. Sexually mature specimens attain a tota...
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On the quantitative distribution and community structure of the meio and macrofaunal communities in the coastal area of the Central Adriatic Sea (Italy)
Many coastal areas have served as repositories of different anthropogenic and naturally induced organic material and nutrients. The major sources thereof are riverine inputs which strongly influence the spatia...
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Reproductive system of the genus Crasiella (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida)
Crasiella diplura from Sweden and Crasiella sp. from Italy were studied alive and with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The two species are simultaneous hermaphrodites and share the same reproductive syste...
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Benthic communities along a littoral of the Central Adriatic Sea (Italy)
Bacteria, meio- and macrofauna were investigated at different depths in a coastal area of the Central Adriatic Sea, yielding information about the composition and abundance of the benthic community. In particu...
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Diuronotus aspetos (Gastrotricha): new morphological data and description of the spermatozoon
The genus Diuronotus (Gastrotricha Chaetonotida) includes two species, D. aspetos and D. rupperti; its morphological affinity with the genus Musellifer has been pointed out. Here, new morphological data from ligh...
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Global diversity of gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha) in fresh waters
The global diversity of inland water Gastrotricha is poorly known, and information is extremely heterogeneous. Gastrotricha have been studied most widely in Europe and America, whereas data from the other cont...
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Global diversity of gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha) in fresh waters
The global diversity of inland water Gastrotricha is poorly known, and information is extremely heterogeneous. Gastrotricha have been studied most widely in Europe and America, whereas data from the other cont...
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Comparative sperm ultrastructure of Neodasys ciritus and Musellifer delamarei, two species considered to be basal among Chaetonotida (Gastrotricha)
The spermatozoa of two species supposed to be basal to Gastrotricha Chaetonotida, Neodasys ciritus and Musellifer delamarei, were studied in order to supply further elements to the understanding of sperm evolutio...
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Reproductive system and spermatozoa of Paraturbanella teissieri (Gastrotricha, Macrodasyida): implications for sperm transfer modality in Turbanellidae
The morphology of the reproductive apparatus of several species of Turbanellidae, which are sequential hermaphrodites, has been studied for a comparison with that of other Gastrotricha Macrodasyida, which are...
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Interstitial gastrotrichs from lotic Italian fresh waters
Twenty-three species of gastrotrichs were found in samples collected from 10 of the 19 water-courses examined. The richness of species and the faunistic composition are comparable with those in lentic sediment...
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The spermatozoa of three species of Xenotrichulidae (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida): the two “dünne Nebengeisseln” of spermatozoa in Heteroxenotrichula squamosa are peculiar para-acrosomal bodies
The spermatozoa of xenotrichulid gastrotrichs have been studied with the aim of supplying further characters for the phylogenetic analysis of Gastrotricha and to assess the reported biflagellarity of Heteroxenotr...
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Gastrotrichs from interstitial fresh water, with a description of four new species
A study was performed on freshwater gastrotrichs living in the interstitial habitat of some lakes in Latium and of Lake Garda (Italy). Thirty-two chetonotids were collected, twenty-five of which could be ident...
