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Adult Loricifera are bilaterally symmetrical interstitial invertebrates around 250 μm long (Kristensen 1991a). The body of the adult is divided into a mouth cone, an eversible introvert densely covered with rows of scalids, a thorax with a neck region bearing basal plates and trichoscalids, and an abdominal region armoured with a lorica (Kristensen 2003). The lorica of Nanaloricidae consists of six or more heavily sclerotized plates with spikes at their anterior rim (Kristensen 1983). Their Higgins-larvae have similar body regions to the adults but clearly differ morphologically. The body of the larva is composed of a simpler mouth cone, an introvert covered with a lower number of short and more hook-like scalids, a collar as an intermediate region between introvert and thorax, a long and flexible thorax with transverse rows of plates, and an abdomen with a weakly developed lorica (Kristensen 1991a, 2003). The latter is equipped ventrally with grasping appendages and caudally with long toes for grasping or locomotion (Kristensen 1991a). Some Loriciferan taxa have complex life cycles (Kristensen and Brooke 2002). Sexes are separate and show a more or less pronounced sexual dimorphism in the structure of the clavoscalids and the copulatory spicule of males. Apart from the larval stages, a juvenile or postlarval stage occurs in the life cycle of Nanaloricidae (Kristensen 1991a).
The Loricifera is a poorly known meiofauna taxon inhabiting the well-oxygenated uppermost layers of the sediment (Higgins and Kristensen 1988). Loricifera have been found worldwide at depths from 7 m to 8,300 m, i.e. in the subtidal zone as well as in the deep sea (Todaro and Kristensen 1998). Since their first description in 1983, only 11 species have been recorded in two families and three genera (Kristensen 2003). The first species described was Nanaloricus mysticus Kristensen, 1983, as the representative species of the Nanaloricidae, which was discovered in intertidal shell-gravel near the coast of Roscoff, France (Kristensen 1983). The second species of Nanaloricidae, Nanaloricus khaitatus Todaro and Kristensen, 1998 was found in a similar interstitial habitat in the Mediterranean Sea (Todaro and Kristensen 1998). There are only a few reports of Loricifera from the deep sea (Soetaert et al. 1984; Hubbard et al. 1988; Kristensen and Shirayama 1988). In fact, the first, and to date only, species discovered in the deep sea belongs to the second family of Loricifera, the Pliciloricidae. Pliciloricus hadalis Kristensen and Shirayama, 1988 was found inhabiting red clay 8,260 m deep in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench of the western Pacific (Kristensen and Shirayama 1988). The new species described here is the first report of a Nanaloricidae from the deep sea and from sediments influenced by volcanic and hydrothermal activity. This occurrence seems to be an exception, because Nanaloricidae have been assumed to prefer shallow water habitats (Gad 2003; Kristensen and Gad 2003). This is reflected in many morphological features which characterize the Nanaloricidae and which are normally not found in Loricifera inhabiting fine-grained, clayish, deep-sea bottoms.
Hydrothermalism is limited to restricted areas of tectonic activity throughout the deep-sea floors. In contrast to the well-known and intensively investigated macrofaunal and bacterial communities of these extreme biotopes, virtually nothing is known about the meiofauna of hydrothermal vents, nor the sediments influenced by them (Grassle 1986; Giere 1993). Early studies dealt with the structure of nematode communities around hydrothermal vents, as compared to communities from adjacent oxic deep-sea sediments or from the shallow, reduced, anoxic sediments of eutrophic bottoms (Vanreusel et al. 1997). Biological investigations during the cruise SO-133 EDISON to the submarine volcanoes of the New Ireland Basin concentrated on the study of the benthic fauna composition at and near hot vents (Herzig 1998).
The sediment, together with the supernatant water, was fixed and preserved in 4% buffered formalin. The sediment was washed out later and filtered through a 40 μm mesh. The meiofauna was extracted using the differential flotation method with the colloidal silica gel Levasil (density 1,299 g/ml, concentration 40%, Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany), and the sample was centrifuged at 4,000 rpm. The sorted loriciferans were placed in 70% ethanol medium, later transferred to glycerol and mounted in glycerin-paraffin-beewax preparations (adapted from Higgins and Thiel 1988), sealed with Glyceel (recipe after Brown 1997).
The microscopic investigation was carried out using a Leica interference-microscope (DMLB with UCA condenser, IC prism and additional magnification 1.5 and 2, Leica microsystems, Vienna, Austria). Illustrations were made with the aid of a drawing tube (mirror technique and macro-apparatus FS25PE, Leica). Photographs were taken using a computerised digital camera ColorView-imaging-system (Soft Imaging System, Mnster, Germany) system adapted for the DM RXA microscope. The species was differentiated morphologically. The descriptive terminology is adapted from Higgins and Kristensen (1986). The type material has been deposited in the type collection of the AG Zoosystematik und Morphologie of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
Last instar larva smaller than postlarva; clavoscalids spinose, short, divided into three segments; spinoscalids short, also spinose or weakly modified into hooks; thorax divided into six transverse rows of thoracic plates, dorsally into two additional subrows, plates folded transversally in a unique manner; collar region slightly developed, consisting of many small plates and two big ventral closing plates; three short, filiform pairs of appendages between thorax and lorica; abdominal lorica less armoured and defined by 18 irregular primary longitudinal ridges; cuticle of trunk with honeycomb ultrasculpture; caudal toes modestly long, spinose and with simple, modestly enlarged bases without any kind of mucro, spine-tips of toes strongly arched basally with an inner, large, single pore; trunk with numerous papillate flosculi, concentrated on the collar plates and at the caudal end; tiny anal cone situated on a small terminal anal field composed of 13 small anal plates; anal plates dorsally with three small papillate flosculi and a pair of tiny posteroterminal setae dorsally; additionally two modestly long pairs of sensory setae in the caudal region.
Postlarva of small size, with a short, well-defined mouth cone bearing eight elevated external furcae of equal length, and with an extremely long, narrow, nonretractable mouth tube distally; buccal tube long and narrow with striae flexible and telescopically retractable distally; internal prepharyngeal armature small, but with short manubrium; large muscular and round pharyngeal bulb; internal pharyngeal layer strongly sclerotized with five transversal rows of small placoids; spinose clavoscalids broad; two types of spinoscalids in the second row: one longer and spinose, the other smaller and feather-like; spinoscalids in the third row each with double tips; sixth row of scalids is missing; scalids in the eighth row like small beaks; two types of short trichoscalids, single and double, the double trichoscalids separated basally; lorica consisting of ten plates, with a honeycomb ultrasculpture on its surface, middorsal plate flanked by two narrow longitudinal dorsolateral plates, inner lateral margins of middorsal plate folded upwards and covering (together with the inner margins of the neighbouring plates) the remaining portion of the middorsal plate; elements of laterocaudal articulation (ridges and sockets) of lorical plates in caudal position; anterior rim of lorica with 13 very short spikes; gland ducts of lorica spikes with small reservoirs; 18 well-developed papillate flosculi in posterior half of lorica; anal cone located more ventrally, covered by a large, shield-like, dorsal anal plate.
The genus name refers to the magic bird the phoenix (lat. phoenix), of unsurpassed beauty, from Egyptian mythology which lived a lonely life and then consumed itself by fire to later rise rejuvenated from its ashes. This is an allusion to the sediments covered with layers of volcanic ash in which the new species was found; loricus from lat. lorica meaning corset.
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