Fujimoto Shinta
Department of Zoology, Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Apr 20;3948(1):145-50. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.10.
Quisarctus yasumurai gen. et sp. nov. (Arthrotardigrada: Halechiniscidae) is described from the submarine cave 'Daidokutsu', off Iejima, Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. It is characterised by a cylindrical body, long primary clava and shorter lateral cirrus inserted on a common cirrophore, and simple digits of unequal lengths (without folds, peduncles, proximal pads, pretarsi, or wrinkles) that terminate in a sheathed, small, crescent-shaped claw with a minute calcar. Quisarctinae subfam. nov. is erected for this unique new genus.
日本冲绳群岛伊江岛附近的海底洞穴“大洞窟”中发现了新属新种——矢村拟真熊虫(Quisarctus yasumurai gen. et sp. nov.)(节肢缓步纲:半熊虫科)。其特征为身体呈圆柱形,初级爪柱状部较长,侧触须较短,着生于共同的触须柄上,指简单,长度不等(无褶皱、柄、近端垫、前跗节或皱纹),末端为带微小距的鞘状小月牙形爪。为此独特的新属建立了拟真熊虫亚科(Quisarctinae subfam. nov.)。