Italian marine gastrotricha: II. one new genus and ten new species of macrodasyida

Abstract

A new genus, Dendropodola, and species, D. transitionalis, are described in the family Dactylopodolidae. Three new species, Cephalodasys hadrosomus, Mesodasys adenotubulatus, and Mesodasys iscbiensis, are described in the family Lepidodasyidae. And, six new species, Pseudostomella etrusca, Ptychostomella tyrrbenica, Tetranchyroderma heterotubulatum, Tetranchyroderma hypopsilancrum, Tetranchyroderma pachysomum, and Tetranchyroderma thysanophorum, are described in the family Thaumastodermatidae. All were collected in littoral and shallow sublittoral sediments along the Italian coastline of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjacent waters. © 1993 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.