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Volume 48, Issue 1

March 2018

Biodiversity and Ecology of Meiofauna in Extreme and Changing Environments

Issue Editors:

Daniela Zeppilli,
Daniel Leduc

50 articles in this issue

Biodiversity and ecology of meiofauna in extreme and changing environments
Daniela Zeppilli
Daniel Leduc
Editorial 11 January 2018 Pages: 1 - 4
A new species of Ligiarctus (Tardigrada, Arthrotardigrada) from the Brazilian continental shelf, Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Edivaldo Gomes-Júnior
Érika Santos
Paulo Fontoura
Meio Extreme 21 April 2017 Pages: 5 - 12
Review of recent trends in ecological studies of deep-sea meiofauna, with focus on patterns and processes at small to regional spatial scales
Norliana Rosli
Daniel Leduc
P. Keith Probert
Meio Extreme 06 October 2017 Pages: 13 - 34
Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review
Daniela Zeppilli
Daniel Leduc
David Fernandes
Meio Extreme Open access 17 November 2017 Pages: 35 - 71
Changes in standing stock and vertical distribution of benthic foraminifera along a depth gradient (58–2750 m) in the southeastern Arabian Sea
Dharmendra Pratap Singh
Rajeev Saraswat
Amrata Kaithwar
Meio Extreme 07 December 2017 Pages: 73 - 88
Colonization of synthetic sponges at the deep-sea Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge): a first insight
Elisa Baldrighi
Daniela Zeppilli
Jozée Sarrazin
Meio Extreme 15 November 2017 Pages: 89 - 103
Assessment of ecological quality status along the Apulian coasts (eastern Mediterranean Sea) based on meiobenthic and nematode assemblages
Federica Semprucci
Maria Balsamo
Roberto Sandulli
Meio Extreme 25 June 2017 Pages: 105 - 115
An approach based on nematode descriptors for the classification of ecological quality (EcoQ) of the Malaysian coasts
Cheng-Ann Chen
Chen-Lin Soo
Federica Semprucci
Meio Extreme 11 November 2017 Pages: 117 - 126
Meiofaunal assemblages of the bay of Nisida and the environmental status of the Phlegraean area (Naples, Southern Italy)
Gianluca Polese
Federica Semprucci
Anna Di Cosmo
Meio Extreme 17 November 2017 Pages: 127 - 137
Nematode communities in the Sai Gon River harbors in relation to tributyltin concentrations
Ngo Xuan Quang
Nguyen Thi My Yen
Ann Vanreusel
MeioExtreme 08 May 2017 Pages: 139 - 151
Opportunity makes the thief—observation of a sublethal predation event on an injured sea urchin
Vinicius Queiroz
Oceanarium 16 June 2016 Pages: 153 - 154
Remote marine protected area reveals unusual social behaviour in Chaetodon trifascialis
D. J. Coker
C. D. Braun
M. L. Berumen
Oceanarium 20 June 2016 Pages: 155 - 156
Caught in the act: an abyssal isopod collected while feeding on Komokiaceae
Torben Riehl
Simon Bober
Angelika Brandt
Oceanarium 24 November 2016 Pages: 157 - 158
200 years of marine research at Senckenberg: selected highlights
A. Brandt
J. Scholz
G. Veit-Köhler
Review 29 December 2017 Pages: 159 - 178
Free-living marine nematode diversity from the Indian coasts
Moumita Ghosh
Sumit Mandal
Original Paper 09 August 2016 Pages: 179 - 194
A new deep-sea genus and species of the family Ecbathyriontidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) from the Gorda Ridge (North Pacific Ocean)
Viatcheslav N. Ivanenko
Pedro Martinez Arbizu
Original Paper 17 September 2016 Pages: 195 - 201
Distribution of meiofaunal abundances in a marine cave complex with secondary openings and freshwater filtrations
Rodrigo Riera
Óscar Monterroso
Alejandro Martínez
Original Paper 13 October 2016 Pages: 203 - 215
Phylogenetic relationships within the Cyatholaimidae (Nematoda: Chromadorida), the taxonomic significance of cuticle pore and pore-like structures, and a description of two new species
Daniel Leduc
Zeng Qi Zhao
Original Paper 24 November 2016 Pages: 217 - 230
Two new species of Tantulocarida from the Atlantic deep sea with first CLSM pictures of tantulus larva
Pedro Martinez Arbizu
Alexandra Petrunina
Original Paper 09 January 2017 Pages: 231 - 237
Two new species of Batillipes (Tardigrada, Arthrotardigrada, Batillipedidae) from the Argentinean Atlantic coast, and a key to all known species
Agustín G. Menechella
Verónica N. Bulnes
Néstor J. Cazzaniga
Original Paper 02 February 2017 Pages: 239 - 247
A new species of the recently established genus Setaphyes (Kinorhyncha, Allomalorhagida) from the Mediterranean with an identification key
Nuria Sánchez
Álvaro García-Herrero
Fernando Pardos
Original Paper 17 February 2017 Pages: 249 - 258
Redescription of Xenodasys riedli (Gastrotricha: Macrodasyida) based on SEM analysis, with first report of population density data
Juliane Schuster
Sarah Atherton
Rick Hochberg
Original Paper 09 March 2017 Pages: 259 - 271
Faunistic assessment of the marine Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) fauna of Turkey with remarks on harpacticoid diversity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
Süphan Karaytuğ
Cengiz Koçak
Original Paper 06 March 2017 Pages: 273 - 280
Morphological and molecular characterizations of Africanema multipapillatum sp. nov. (Nematoda, Enoplida) in intertidal sediment from the East China Sea
Benze Shi
Kuidong Xu
Original Paper 27 April 2017 Pages: 281 - 288
A new genus Cornurella gen. n. (Nematoda, Desmodoridae, Filipjev, 1922) from Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Maria Cristina da Silva
Neyvan Renato Rodrigues da Silva
Wilfrida Decraemer
Original Paper 14 April 2017 Pages: 289 - 302
Echinoderes hakaiensis sp. nov.: a new mud dragon (Kinorhyncha, Echinoderidae) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean with the redescription of Echinoderes pennaki Higgins, 1960
María Herranz
Evgeniya Yangel
Brian S. Leander
Original Paper 29 May 2017 Pages: 303 - 325
New species of Semnoderidae (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida: Kentrorhagata) from the Gulf of Mexico
Martin V. Sørensen
Stephen C. Landers
Original Paper 20 May 2017 Pages: 327 - 355
First record of the family Rhizotrichidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Turkey with description of a new species
Alp Alper
Serdar Sak
Orkan Metin
Original Paper 27 May 2017 Pages: 357 - 365
Second members of the harpacticoid genera Pontopolites and Pseudoleptomesochra (Crustacea, Copepoda) are new species from Korean marine interstitial
Tomislav Karanovic
Joo-Lae Cho
Original Paper 10 June 2017 Pages: 367 - 393
Deep-sea metazoan Meiofauna from a Polymetallic nodule area in the Central Indian Ocean Basin
Qianhui Zeng
Dingyong Huang
Jianjia Wang
Original Paper 19 August 2017 Pages: 395 - 405
A new species of Halectinosoma Vervoort, 1962 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Argentina, including a key to species with unusual leg armature patterns, notes on wrongly assigned taxa and an updated key to ectinosomatid genera
Michel Sciberras
Rony Huys
Néstor J. Cazzaniga
Original Paper 23 October 2017 Pages: 407 - 422
Benthic nematode biodiversity of the Abzu, Tiamat and Michael Ivanov mud volcanoes located along the SWIM fracture zone (Gulf of Cadiz)
Sofia P. Ramalho
Carlos Ribeiro
Helena Adão
Original Paper 05 November 2017 Pages: 423 - 438
Descriptions of two new species of Xarifia copepods (Copepoda: Xarifiidae) with a key to the known species associated with the coral family, Euphylliidae Alloiteau, 1952
Yu-Rong Cheng
Benny K. K. Chan
Original Paper 23 December 2017 Pages: 439 - 447
A census of deep-water sipunculans (Sipuncula)
José I. Saiz
María Bustamante
Javier Tajadura
Original Paper 10 November 2016 Pages: 449 - 464
Some remarks on selected diastylid genera. Part II: Leptostylis (Crustacea, Cumacea) from the deep southern Atlantic and Pacific, with the description of six new species
Ute Mühlenhardt-Siegel
Original Paper 20 December 2016 Pages: 465 - 516
A new parasitic deep-sea copepod from the Angola Basin (southeast Atlantic Ocean): Abyssotaurus vermiambatus gen. et sp. nov. (Copepoda: Cyclopoida: Serpulidicolidae Stock, 1979), with remarks on serpulidicolid systematics and a key to the species
Nils Brenke
Martin Fanenbruck
Kai Horst George
Original Paper 29 May 2017 Pages: 517 - 530
First record of the deep-sea isopod family Dendrotionidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the Northwest Pacific with description of two new species of Dendromunna
Olga A. Golovan
Marina V. Malyutina
Angelika Brandt
Original Paper 26 May 2017 Pages: 531 - 544
Deep-sea glass sponges (Hexactinellida) from polymetallic nodule fields in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), northeastern Pacific: Part I – Amphidiscophora
Daniel Kersken
Dorte Janussen
Pedro Martínez Arbizu
Original Paper 07 July 2017 Pages: 545 - 573
Correction to: Deep-sea glass sponges (Hexactinellida) from polymetallic nodule fields in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), northeastern Pacific: Part I – Amphidiscophora
Daniel Kersken
Dorte Janussen
Pedro Martínez Arbizu
Correction 04 November 2017 Pages: 575 - 580
Comparative marine biodiversity and depth zonation in the Southern Ocean: evidence from a new large polychaete dataset from Scotia and Amundsen seas
Lenka Neal
Katrin Linse
Adrian G. Glover
Original Paper Open access 29 June 2017 Pages: 581 - 601
Deep-sea amphipod genus Eurythenes from Japan, with a description of a new Eurythenes species from off Hokkaido (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
Yukiko Narahara-Nakano
Takafumi Nakano
Ko Tomikawa
Original Paper 11 July 2017 Pages: 603 - 620
Mitochondrial genome and polymorphic microsatellite markers from the abyssal sponge Plenaster craigi Lim & Wiklund, 2017: tools for understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
Sergi Taboada
Nathan J. Kenny
Adrian G. Glover
Original Paper Open access 30 September 2017 Pages: 621 - 630
First observations of the behaviour of the deep-sea amphipod Dulichiopsis dianae sp. nov. (Senticaudata, Dulichiidae) in the TAG hydrothermal vent field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
Laure Corbari
Jean-Claude Sorbe
Original Paper 03 October 2017 Pages: 631 - 645
Four new species of the family Propeamussiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the abyssal zone of the northwestern Pacific, with notes on Catillopecten squamiformis (Bernard, 1978)
Gennady M. Kamenev
Original Paper 21 November 2017 Pages: 647 - 676
Isolation and characterization of novel polymorphic microsatellite loci for the deep-sea hydrothermal vent limpet, Lepetodrilus nux, and the vent-associated squat lobster, Shinkaia crosnieri
Yuichi Nakajima
Chuya Shinzato
Satoshi Mitarai
Short Communication 29 April 2017 Pages: 677 - 684
Biological report of a giant deep-sea squid Onykia robusta collected from the Sanriku Coast, Japan: implications for low genetic diversity
Yoshihisa Kurita
Short Communication 28 July 2017 Pages: 685 - 688
Note on new records of living Scleractinia and Gorgonaria between 1700 and 2200 m depth in the western Mediterranean Sea
Stéphane Sartoretto
Helmut Zibrowius
Short Communication 14 December 2017 Pages: 689 - 694
Deep-sea decapods sampled or observed with a manned submersible at the Rio Grande Rise (SW Atlantic), including the first record of four species from this region
Irene Azevedo Cardoso
Jose Angel Alvarez Perez
Hiroshi Kitazato
Short Communication 19 December 2017 Pages: 695 - 702
Presence of the reef-building coral, Porites panamensis, in a shallow hydrothermal field in the Gulf of California
Tatiana Oporto-Guerrero
Héctor Reyes-Bonilla
Lydia B. Ladah
Short Communication 01 August 2016 Pages: 703 - 708
Molluscan diversity in shallow water hydrothermal vents off Kueishan Island, Taiwan
Chong Chen
Tin-Yam Chan
Benny Kwok Kan Chan
Short Communication 14 October 2017 Pages: 709 - 714