- September 2023, Check the Movie Gallery, exceptional clips from Michael Müller -
- May 2022, looking for gastrotrichs and other meiofauna in Holland -
 Pdf
Pdf
- Paraturbanella teissieri eaten by a dileptid ciliate -
Pdf
- Letter from Jacek Kisielewski -
Pdf
- Recent papers on Gastrotricha -
Compiled by M.A.Todaro (September, 2025)
- Sochiarelli C., Minowa A.K., Garraffoni A.R.S. (2025). Seek and describe: An integrative description of a new species of Ornamentula (Gastrotricha: Paucitubulatina).
Zool. Anz.318: 106–119.doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2025.07.009
- Sørensen M.V., Araújo T.Q., Macheriotou L., Braeckman U., Smith C.R., Ingels J. (2025). A new gastrotrich, Musellifer leasiae sp. nov. (Paucitubulatina: Muselliferidae), from Antarctica—the first Muselliferidae species description from the Southern Hemisphere. Zootaxa 5647: 359–370. Doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5647.4.3
- Minowa, A. K., Acosta Salgado, K. F., Cabarca, S. & Garraffoni, A. R. S. (2025). Taxonomy and systematics of Lepidodermella (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotidae): New species, new records, neotype designation and molecular data from Brazil. Zool Anz. 318: 38-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2025.07.001
- Campos, A., Araujo, T. Q., Todaro, M. A. & Garraffoni, A. R. S. (2025). Description of a new species of Paraturbanella, new record of Paraturbanella tricaudata and new insights on reproductive traits in Turbanellidae (Gastrotricha:Macrodasyida). Zool Anz. 317: 46-59. doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2025.05.010
- Todaro M.A., Rebecchi C. (2025). Gastrotricha from the gulf of Squillace and the gulf of Sant’Eufemia (Calabria, Italy). Biol. Mar. Mediter. 29:122-125.
- Minowa A.K., Kieneke A., Balsamo M., Guidi L., Garraffoni A.R.S. (2025). Addressing taxonomic shortfalls in Neotropical gastrotrichs: a new genus and species of freshwater Gastrotricha (Chaetonotida: Paucitubulatina) from Brazil. Invertebrate Systematics 39: IS25003. doi:10.1071/IS25003
- Minowa A.K, Ferreira V.R.P., Garraffoni A.R.S. (2025). Bryofaunal gastrotrichs from the Cerrado: First report of Dendroichthydium cf. ibyrapora from a Neotropical Savanna. Biota Neotropica 25(1): e20251753. https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2025-1753
- Minowa A.K, Garraffoni A.R.S. (2025). Expanding the knowledge of Brazilian Gastrotrich biodiversity: Freshwater Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida) from Northeastern Brazil. Zoologia 42: e24025. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v42.e24025
- Minowa A.K, Kieneke A., Campos A., Balsamo M., Plewka M., Guidi L., Araújo T.Q, Garraffoni A.R.S. (2025). New branch on the tree of life of Gastrotricha: establishment of a new genus for limno-terrestrial species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 203: zlae166. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae166
- Souid A., Gammoudi M., Saponi F., El Cafsi M., Todaro M.A. (2025). First Investigation of the Marine Gastrotrich Fauna from the Waters of North Tunisia, with the Description of a New Species of Halichaetonotus. (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida). Diversity 17, doi.org/10.3390/d17010017
- Todaro M.A., Dal Zotto M., Segura O., Cambronero-Bolaños R., Vargas J.V., Sibaja-Cordero J.A. (2025). Biodiversity and distribution of marine Gastrotricha along the Pacific cost of Costa Rica. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 313: 1-40
Cesaretti A., Kosakyan A., Saponi F., Todaro M.A. (2024). Gaining and losing on the way: the evolutionary scenario of reproductive diversification in genus Urodasys (Macrodasyida: Gastrotricha) inferred by multi-gene phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202: zlae148. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae148
Trokhymchuk R., Kieneke A. (2024). New records of deep-sea Gastrotricha and Tardigrada from Iberian and Canary Basins (Northeast Atlantic) with comments on abyssal meiofauna composition and the meiofauna paradox. The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series Biology, 43, p. 66-84. https://doi.org/10.26565/2075-5457-2024-43-6
Macher J.N., Martinez A., Cakir S., Cholley P.E., Christoforou E., Curini-Galletti M.C., van Galen L., Garcia-Cobo M., Jondelius U., de Jong D., Leasi F., Lemke M., Lopez I.R., Sanchez N., Sorensen, M.V., Todaro M.A., Renema W., Fontaneto D. 2024. Enhancing metabarcoding efficiency and ecological insights through integrated taxonomy and DNA reference barcoding: A case study on beach meiofauna. Molecular Ecology Resources 24: e13997: 1-15.
Saponi F., Kosakyan A., Cesaretti A., Todaro M. A. 2024. A contribution to the taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Chaetonotus (Gastrotricha, Paucitubulatina, Chaetonotidae), with the description of a new species from Italian inland waters. Europ. Zool. J. 91: 1078–1092. Doi: 10.1080/24750263.2024.2397473
Gammuto L., Serra V., Petroni G., Todaro M.A. 2024. Molecular phylogenetic position and description of a new genus and species of freshwater Chaetonotidae (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida: Paucitubulatina), and the annotation of its mitochondrial genome. Invertebrate Systematics 38: IS23059. doi:10.1071/IS23059
Araújo T.Q. 2024. A description of a new species of Cephalodasys (Macrodasyida: Gastrotricha) from Florida, USA using integrative morphological approach. Zootaxa 5463: 581-597. DOI:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5463.4.8
Saponi F., Rebecchi C., Cesaretti A., Souid A., Todaro M.A. 2024. New data on marine gastrotrichs from Sicily. Biol. Mar. Mediterr. 28: 133-136.
Araujo, T. Q., Minowa, A. K. & Garraffoni, A. R. S. 2024. Trends on Gastrotricha research: a bibliometric analysis. Biologia 79: 2095–2107. Doi: 10.1007/s11756-024-01686-6
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
|
