Indian Ocean Kinorhyncha: 1, Condyloderes and Sphenoderes, New Cyclorhagid Genera. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1969 No. 14.

摘要

The first kinorhynchs reported from the Indian Ocean were Campyloderes vanhoeffeni Zelinka, 1913 and Echinoderes ehlersi Zelinka, 1913. The former of these cyclorhagid species was collected during the Deutschen Siidpolar Expedition, 1901-1903 at both Gauss Station, Antarctica (Davis Sea) and Kerguelen Island. A second species, C. macquariae Johnston, 1938, was described from Macquarie Island, and until C. adherens Nyholm, 1947a was found off the Swedish Coast, the genus was considered Antarctic in distribution. Recently C. macquariae has been recorded from the tropical waters of New Caledonia (Higgins, 1967) but none of the other species have been found since their original description. The second Indian Ocean kinorhynch, Echinoderes ehlersi, is known only from a single collection from Zanzibar made by Vanhoeffen in 1885 and was the first kinorhynch to be described from tropical seas (Zelinka, 1913).