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- Recent papers on Gastrotricha -    
Compiled by  M.A.Todaro   (February, 2024)    


  • Saponi F., Todaro M.A. 2024. Status of the Italian Freshwater Gastrotricha Biodiversity, with the Creation of an Interactive GIS-Based Web Map. Diversity 16: 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16010017
  • Krishnan S., Ghosh A., Bharti D., Todaro M.A., Kumar S. 2023. First record of Chaetonotus (Primochaetus) heideri(Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) from India. Rec. zool. Surv. India 123: 255-260. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v123/i3/2023/172377
  • Todaro, M.A. (2023) Chapter 10. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Gastrotricha (hairy-bellied worms). Pp. 187–191 in: Kelly, M., Mills, S., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C., Nelson, W. (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp.
  • Araujo T.Q., King-Trudeau S., VanDyke J., Hochberg R. 2023. First Ultrastructural Description of an Apomictic Opsiblastic Egg in Freshwater Gastrotricha. J. Morphol. 285, e21659. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21659
  • Rataj Križanová F., Vďačný P. 2023. A Heterolepidoderma and Halichaetoderma gen. nov. (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotidae) riddle: integrative taxonomy and phylogeny of six new freshwater species from Central Europe. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlad079; https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad079
  • Araujo T. Q. & Hochberg R. 2023. A new species of Crasiella (Gastrotricha: Planodasyidae) from Capron Shoal, Florida, USA. Zootaxa 5311: 393-404.
  • Cesaretti A., Leasi F., Todaro M.A. 2023. Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Applied to a New Species Helps Understand the Functioning of the Reproductive Apparatus in Stylet-Bearing Urodasys (Gastrotricha: Macrodasyida). Water 15: 1106; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15061106
  • Minowa A.K., Garraffoni A.R.S. 2022. New data on Brazilian semiplanktonic gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida). Zootaxa 5209: 045–068
  • Salgado K.F. A., Minowa A.K., Garraffoni A.R.S. 2022. New records, neotype designation and DNA sequences of three species of Chaetonotus (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 5213: 101–129
  • Rataj Križanová F., Vďačný P. 2022. A huge undescribed diversity of the subgenus Hystricochaetonotus (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotidae, Chaetonotus) in Central Europe. European Journal of Taxonomy 840: 1–93. Doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.840.1941
  • Guidi L., Balsamo M., Grassi L., Semprucci F., Todaro M.A. 2022. New Data on Reproductive System and Spermatozoa Confirm Macrodasys as a Model in Comparative Reproductive Analysis in Macrodasyida (Gastrotricha). Water 14, 3085. Doi: 10.3390/w14193085
  • Meshjel M.H. 2022. New Records of Gastrotricha from the main outfall drain, South of Bagdad, Iraq. Bull. Iraq Nat. Hist. Mus. 17: 115-127.
  • Araujo T.Q., Hochberg R., Garraffoni A.R.S. 2022. Description of Xenotrichula tropicalis sp. nov. (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida) and New Records of Xenotrichulidae Species from Brazil and USA. Annales Zoologici 72: 167-185.
  • Todaro M.A., Luporini P. 2022. Not too big for its mouth: direct evidence of a macrodasyidan gastrotrich preyed in nature by a dileptid ciliate. The European Zoological Journal, 89:785-790. DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2022.2095048




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