Systematics of the rare genus Stylochaeta (Gastrotricha: Dasydytidae) in Brazil

• Grant number: 15/25066-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2016
• End date: January 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni
• Grantee: Axell Kou Minowa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biologia (IB). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/23856-0 - Phylogenetic reconstruction of Gastrotricha based on molecular and morphological data, AP.BTA.JP

Abstract

Gastrotricha are aquatic macroinvertebrates (less than 1 mm) and a benthonic important components freshwater and marine habitats. Despite the large number of populations in different environments, this taxon is poor know possibly because their small size and fragility of their bodies, which makes its difficult to study. The taxon comprises more than 750 species traditionally divided into two chaetonotida orders (mostly freshwater) and macrodasyida (mostly marine). The genus Stylochaeta (Chaetonotida: Dasydytidae) has only 4 species and all described from Europe. During a meiofauna survey in in the city of Paulinia (SP) many specimens of Stylochaeta were found. Thus, this project aims to carry out the description of this probably species new and construct the first phylogeny hypothesis for the genus. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MINOWA, AXELL K.; GARRAFFONI, ANDRE R. S.. A new species of Haltidytes Remane, 1936 (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida: Dasydytidae) from an urban lagoon in Brazil with a phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus based on morphological data. ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, v. 269, p. 100-109, 2017. (15/25066-0, 14/23856-0)