• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2002

바다가시곰벌레속 (Halechiniscus)에 속하는 해양완보류 2종 (H. Jejuensis, H. remanei)을 보고한다. 신종인 제주가시곰벌레 (H. Jejuensis)는 몸통 측돌기의 위치와 모양, 제4다리 기부에 난 유두형의 감각톤기의 모양, 그리고 머리의 전단부가 두 갈래로 갈라져 있지 않은 점에서 본 속의 다른 종들과 뚜렷이 구별된다. 지금까지 바다가시곰벌레속에 기록된 9종에 대한 종검색표를 새롭게 작성하였다.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2017

A new marine tardigrade species of the genus Orzeliscus belonging to the family Halechiniscidae is described from the sea coasts of Korea and Japan. This new species is most characterized in having slender, pole-shaped clava with uniform breadth along its whole length. Furthermore, it evidently differs from the congeners by the combination of characters of a hemispherical protrusion on cheek region of the head, a big and bulbous lateral projection between leg III and leg IV, and an elongate papillus terminating with a minute tube on leg IV. 'Orzeliscus cf. belopus' sensu McKirdy, Schmidt and McGinty-Bayly, 1976 from the Galapagos Islands quite resembles this new species in sharing the slender, pole-shaped clava. However, these two Pacific populations are distinguished to each other by body size and shapes of the protrusion on cheek region and the lateral projection between leg III and leg IV. Scanning electron microscope photographs and a key to species of the genus Orzeliscus are also provided herein.