Zoologists always hope to find unusual and interesting new animals in exotic places. Over
the last few centuries, scientific expeditions in remote places outside Europe and North …

Kinorhyncha is a phylum of microscopical, marine, benthic animals that are found
throughout the world. Currently the group comprises 164 species, distributed on 18 genera …

Limited data are available for the kinorhynch fauna from the Southern Hemisphere, with little
or no data from New Zealand. Here, we provide a first comprehensive overview of the …

A large collection of kinorhynch specimens from coastal and subtidal localities around the
Korean Peninsula and in the East China Sea was examined, and the material included …

As an outcome of the workshop “Taxonomy and Diversity of Marine Meiofauna”, arranged by
CEBIMar in São Sebastião, Brazil, the three first Brazilian species of the kinorhynch genus …

A new kinorhynch genus, Meristoderes gen. nov., and two new species from Spain and the
Solomon Islands, respectively, are described. The new genus is distinguished from all other …

Data are presented from the first intensive sampling of Kinorhyncha around the Iberian
Peninsula over a 21-year period from 1990 to 2011, from 81 sites mostly in less than 100 m …

Deep-sea trenches are one of the last frontiers for deep-sea exploration and represent a
large reservoir of undiscovered biodiversity. This applies in particular to organisms …

We reconstructed kinorhynch phylogeny using maximum-likelihood and Bayesian analyses
of nuclear 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences from 30 species in 13 genera (18S) and 23 …

Two new species of Echinoderes from the Eratosthenes Seamount and a deep-sea station
near the Sedlo Seamount are described. Echinoderes multiporus sp. nov. from the …