Urnaloricus is a genus of loricifera; it is distinct enough to belong to its own family, Urnaloricidae. Loricifera are phylum that are animals that live in marine area only, and very small in size. The Urnaloricus was found Southwest in the Faroe Islands, North Atlantic. It was the thirty-eighth loriciferan species found. One part of the life cycle is the Higgins larva and it is introverted with eight two-segmented clavoscalids.[1][2][3][4]
| Urnaloricus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Loricifera |
| Order: | Nanaloricida |
| Family: | Urnaloricidae |
| Genus: | Urnaloricus Heiner & Møbjerg Kristensen, 2009 |
| Type species | |
| Urnaloricus gadi Heiner, 2009
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| Other species | |
The genus includes:
- Urnaloricus gadi Heiner 2009
- Urnaloricus ibenae Neves 2018[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Neves, Ricardo C.; Kristensen, Reinhardt M.; Rohal, Melissa; Thistle, David; Sørensen, Martin V. (2019). "First report of Loricifera from the North East Pacific Region, with the description of two new species". Marine Biodiversity. 49 (3): 1151–1168. doi:10.1007/s12526-018-0898-1. ISSN 1867-1616. S2CID 255618186.
- ^ Heiner, & Kristensen, R. M. (2009). Urnaloricus gadi nov. gen. et nov. sp. (Loricifera, Urnaloricidae nov, fam.), an aberrant Loficifera with a viviparous pedogenetic life cycle. Journal of Morphology (1931), 270(2), 129-153.
- ^ Kristensen, Gooday, A.J., & Goineau, A. (2019). Loricifera inhabiting spherical aggluniated structures in the abyssal eastern equatorial Pacific nodule fields. Marine Biodiversity, 49(5), 2455-2466.
- ^ Neves, Kristensen, R. M., Rohal, M., Thistle, D., & Serensen, M. V. (2019). First report of Loricifera from the North East Pacific Region, with the description of two new species. Marine Biodiversity, 49(3), 1151-1168.
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