Condyloderes storchi
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Condyloderes storchi is aspecies of animal livingin the sand gap system of the seabed with a length of about one millimeter from the group of hookweed (Kinorhyncha). The organism consists of around 1000 cells and lives in the substrate of the South Atlantic . The animal feeds mainly on diatoms , which it tracks down and prey on in the sediment.
Condyloderes storchi is named after Volker Storch from the Zoological Institute of Heidelberg University . The animal was discovered in 2004.
particularities
Condyloderes storchi was found together with five other hookweed in the stomach contents of the Argentine red shrimp ( Pleoticus mulleri (Bate, 1888)) on the coast of Argentina off Patagonia . In addition to C. storchi, they were representatives of two other new species, Pycnophyes argentinensis and Pycnophyes neuhausi , as well as animals of the already known species Kinorhynchus anomalus Lang, 1953, which was previously only known from the coast of Chile .
literature
- Sergio Martorellia, Robert P. Higgins: Kinorhyncha from the stomach of the shrimp Pleoticus muelleri (Bate, 1888) from Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina , Zoologischer Anzeiger 243: 85-98. doi : 10.1016 / j.jcz.2004.07.003 .