Check List 12(6): e19588, doi: 10.15560/12.6.1986
Pseudostomella dolichopoda Todaro, 2012 and P. cataphracta Ruppert, 1970 (Gastrotricha: Thaumastodermatidae): new records from Brazil and USA and an updated key to the genus
expand article infoThiago Quintão Araujo‡, Alfredo Hannemann Wieloch‡, Teofânia Heloisa Dultra Vidigal‡, Rick Hochberg§, André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni|
‡ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil§ University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States of America| Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Corresponding author: Thiago Araujo ( araujotq@gmail.com )

© 2017 Thiago Araujo, Alfredo Wieloch, Teofânia Vidigal, Rick Hochberg, André Garraffoni.
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Citation: Araujo T, Hochberg R, Wieloch A, Vidigal T, Garraffoni A (2016) Pseudostomella dolichopoda Todaro, 2012 and P. cataphracta Ruppert, 1970 (Gastrotricha: Thaumastodermatidae): new records from Brazil and USA and an updated key to the genus. Check List 12(6): 1986. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.6.1986
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Abstract
Pseudostomella dolichopoda was originally described from the north coast of São Paulo, Brazil, and P. cataphracta from North Carolina, USA. Herein we report new distributional records of both species: P. dolichopoda is recorded from Espírito Santo, Brazil and P. cataphracta from Florida, USA. An updated identification key for the genus Pseudostomella is also provided.
Keywords
Macrodasyida; Atlantic Ocean; Brazilian southeast coast; USA east coast