Further Notes on Phyllosoma Utivaebi Tokioka

Taxonomic Study of the Kinorhyncha in Japan. III. Echinoderes sensibilis n. sp. (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Tanabe Bay

“…cavernus Sørensen, Jørgensen andBoesgaard, 2000 from Australia. Echinoderes masudai Abe, 1930 andE. dujardini Claparède, 1863 reported from the Pacific coast of the mainland of Japan (Abe, 1930;Tokioka, 1949;Sudzuki, 1976 a, b) are currently designated as "species indeterminata" and "misidentification" (Higgins, 1983;Adrianov and Malakhov, 1999). Echinoderes dujardini Claparède, 1863, very common in European waters, was carefully re-described by Higgins (1977).…”

“…Some years later, this species was listed by Sudzuki (1976a, b) from meiobenthic samples around Kasado Island in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. The finding of E. dujardinii in Japan is however highly questionable because the species has been known only from European waters, and the reports of Tokioka (1949) and Sudzuki (1976a, b) seem to be misidentifications (see Higgins, 1983;Adrianov and Malakhov, 1994). Because of these facts, still no valid species of the genus Echinoderes has been reported from Japan.…”

“…The first report of Kinorhyncha from Japan was Echinoderes sp . (Kawamura, 1927) collected by Komai in 1925 at Misaki Marine Biological Station near Tokyo (see Kawamura, 1927Kawamura, , 1947Tokioka, 1949). Years later, Abe (1930) described a new species, Echinoderes masudai Abe, 1930, found at Gogoshima Island near Hiroshima.…”

“…In 1949, Tokioka reported another species of Echinoderes , E. dujardinii Claparède, 1863, from Ago Bay, Honshu Is. (Tokioka, 1949). Some years later, this species was listed by Sudzuki (1976a, b) from meiobenthic samples around Kasado Island in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan.…”