Stygarctus granulatus Pollock, 1970a

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, Zootaxa 4037 (1), pp. 1-189 : 146

173. Stygarctus granulatus Pollock, 1970a

Stygarctus granulatus n. sp. ( Pollock 1970a)

Terra typica : Atlantic Ocean ( USA, North America)

Atlantic Ocean:

• 41°31′41′′N, 70°40′41′′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO21] Type Locality: USA, Massachusetts State, Barnstable County, Buzzard’s Bay, the neck connecting Woods Hole and Penzance Point, Crane’s Beach, 20–40 cm deep in sand, medium well-sorted sand. Pollock (1970a, b)

• 34°41′30′′N, 76°50′00′′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO31] USA, North Carolina State, Carteret County, Bogue Bank, near Morehead City, ocean side, 30 and 60 cm deep in sand, salinity (34–36‰), sand (0.2–0.5 mm). Lindgren (1971)

Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 2; total: 2.

Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO21: 1, FAO31: 1; total: 2.

Remarks: This is an interstitial and intertidal species known from two localities on the beaches of the western Atlantic, 20–60 cm deep in sand.