Megastygarctides setoloso Morgan & O'Reilly, 1988

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, Zootaxa 4037 (1), pp. 1-189 : 131-132

150. Megastygarctides setoloso Morgan & O'Reilly, 1988

Megastygarctides setoloso n. sp. ( Morgan & O'Reilly 1988)

Megastygractides conf. setoloso Morgan & O'Reilly, 1988 ( Kharkevych 2013a) Terra typica : Atlantic Ocean ( Scotland, Europe)

Atlantic Ocean:

• 58 ° 01′N, 0 5 ° 24′W: 16 m bsl: Type Locality: [FAO27] UK, Scotland, Highland County, Summer Isles, SE shore of Tanera Mòr, the anchorage near salmon cages, sand. Morgan & O'Reilly (1988)

Black Sea:

• 44°37′N, 33°32′E; 2–17 m bsl: [FAO37] Ukraine / Russia, Crimean Peninsula, Sevastopol bays, interstitial, medium and fine sand with fragments of algae. Kharkevych (2013a)

Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 1, Black Sea: 1; total: 2. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO27: 1, FAO37: 1; total: 2.

Remarks: This species was described from the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland (Atlantic) and just recently reported from the Black Sea. It is a subtidal species collected from sand.