Lindia gravitata ( Lie-Pettersen, 1905 )

De Smet, Willem H., 2015, Rotifera from the Mediterranean Sea, with description of ten new species, Zootaxa 4028 (2), pp. 151-196 : 189

Lindia gravitata ( Lie-Pettersen, 1905)

The specimens seen showed a bit more distinct pseudosegmentation of the body than those used in its redescription ( De Smet 2005); habitus and trophi otherwise identical. Males present, similar in habitus to females, but smaller (~150 µm), and without trophi.

The species was found in psammon from the Costa Brava, Côte d’Azur, and Tyrrhenian Sea, at 50 m to 3.5 km off shore, and depths varying from 15 up to 30 m; June, July, September, October; water temperature 16−21 °C. Previous records are from the Norwegian Sea at Bergen, Norway ( Lie-Pettersen 1905), the North Sea: Kieler Bucht, Germany ( Schulz 1936/37), Eastern Scheldt, The Netherlands ( De Smet 2005), Tyrrhenian Sea, Elba Island ( De Smet 2007), and Skagerrak, Sweden ( Willems et al. 2009).