Check List 16(1): 1-7, doi: 10.15560/16.1.1
First records of marine tardigrades of the genus Coronarctus (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada, Arthrotardigrada) from Mexico
expand article infoWilbert Andrés Pérez-Pech‡, Jesper Guldberg Hansen§, Erica DeMilio|, Alberto de Jesús-Navarrete‡, Ivonne Martínez Mendoza, Axayacatl Rocha Olivares, Abel Vargas Espositos
‡ El Colegio de la Frontera Sur-Unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, Mexico§ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark| National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland¶ Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico

Corresponding author: Wilbert Andrés Pérez-Pech ( pilon_45@hotmail.com )

Academic editor: Ralf Cordeiro
© Wilbert Andrés Pérez-Pech, Jesper Guldberg Hansen, Erica DeMilio, Alberto de Jesús-Navarrete, Ivonne Martínez Mendoza, Axayacatl Rocha Olivares, Abel Vargas Espositos.
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Citation: Pérez-Pech WA, Hansen JG, DeMilio E, de Jesús-Navarrete A, Mendoza IM, Olivares AR, Vargas-Espositos A (2020) First records of marine tardigrades of the genus Coronarctus (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada, Arthrotardigrada) from Mexico. Check List 16(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.1
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Abstract

Deep-water sampling in the Perdido Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico, Mexican Economic Exclusive Zone yielded five specimens of tardigrades belonging to the genus Coronarctus Renaud-Mornant, 1974. The specimens represent the first records of the genus for Mexico. Two two-clawed larvae and two four-clawed larvae of Coronarctus mexicus Romano, Gallo, D’Addabbo, Accogli, Baguley & Montagna, 2011 and a single four-clawed larval specimen of an undescribed Coronarctus species were identified. Taxonomic analysis of the specimens contributed to the knowledge of deep-sea and Mexican marine tardigrades, two data-poor areas of study.

Keywords
Coronarctidae; biodiversity; meiofauna