'' Pliciloricus enigmaticus'' is a marine Loriciferan species of genus ''
Pliciloricus
''Pliciloricus'' is a genus of marine organisms Pliciloricidae family, the phylum Loricifera described by Higgins & Kristensen, 1986.Higgins, Robert P.; Kristensen, Reinhardt M 1986: New Loricifera from southeastern United States coastal waters ...
'' first described by Higgins &
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1986.
Description
''Pliciloricus enigmaticus'' is a marine species in which adults measure between 160–268 µm of length (excluding any cone mouth).
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The body is dual compound, located in the second row spinoscalids in position medioventral and lies fused in the middle of its length basal. It usually is very modified, strongly sclerotised, and rigid. The 15 spinoscalids have claws in the third row. Spinoscalids with 4–7 teeth that alternate with spinoscalids that are not modified.
The Lorica features 7 ridges cuticular transverse and longitudinal ridges doubles, 2 plates lateroventral of the caudal region. The anus is terminal.][
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Distribution
The species name ''Pliciloricus enigmaticus'' has so far only been used for animals found in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...
: Two finds off the eastern shore of North America
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(see map, right).
See also
* family
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Pliciloricidae
Pliciloricidae are a family of marine organisms in the phylum Loricifera. It contains 23 species in 4 genera.Shinta Fujimoto, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Taeko Kimura, Susumu Ohtsuka and Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen. 2020. A New Genus and Species of Loric ...
* phylum
In biology, a phylum (; plural: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. Traditionally, in botany the term division has been used instead of phylum, although the International Code of Nomenclature f ...
Loricifera
Loricifera (from Latin, '' lorica'', corselet (armour) + ''ferre'', to bear) is a phylum of very small to microscopic marine cycloneuralian sediment-dwelling animals that had been determined to be 37 described species, in 9 genera, bu ...
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Loricifera
Animals described in 1986