Records of Kinorhyncha

* The link of data for kinorhynch records was changed from Dropbox to "artsci.kyushu-u.ac.jp" on 02 Feb. 2022.
Please change the link URL in your Google Earth software. 


Almost all kinorhynch records in which kinorhynchs were identified to species or genus level are shown in the database.

Each record data contains the information of locality (coordinates, depth, sediment type), reporting paper, and referred species name. The type locality of each species is shown in red and the other records are in white.

You can see the data with using a Google Earth (via Chrome or Google Earth Pro).

How to use it?

You can use it either of two ways. In the option 2, the new changes will be automatically applied to your map when the original data is updated.

Option 1 (Chrome or Google Earth Pro): please download the kmz file from here and import it to the Google Earth.

Option 2 (Google Earth Pro): you can see the data with using the "network link" function in the Google earth Pro with a link of "https://www.artsci.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~hyamasaki/Kinorhynch_records.kmz".

(see below photos for detail protocol)

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01 Feb. 2024: Information on the papers in Sørensen & Grzelak (2024) in New Zealand J Zool added.

15 Feb. 2023: Information on the papers in the 6th Scalidophora Workshop Special Volume in Zool. Anz. added.

06 Jun. 2022: Information on González-Casarrubios et al. (2022) in European Journal of Taxonomy added.

22 Feb. 2022: Information on Rucci et al. (2022) in Zootaxa added.

02 Feb. 2022: The link to the database changed to "https://www.artsci.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~hyamasaki/Kinorhynch_records.kmz"!
                                Information on Cepeda et al. (2022) in Zootaxa added.

18 Nov. 2021: Information on Sørensen et al. (2021) in Turkish Journal of Zoology and Hoffman et al. (2021) in Cahiers de Biologie Marine added.

04 Jan. 2021: Information on Sørensen & Herranz (2020) in Acta Zoologica and Sørensen et al. (2020) in European Journal of Taxonomy added.

08 Oct. 2020: Information on Adrianov & Maiorova (2020) in Zool Anz added.

20 Aug. 2020: Link for the database changed. Information on Cepeda et al. (2020) in Front. Mar. Sci. and Landers et al. (2020) in Mar. Biol. Res. added.

06 Aug. 2020: Information on Álvarez-Castillo et al. (2020) in Zootaxa added.

17 Jun. 2020: Information on Cepeda et al. (2020) in Eur J Taxon, and that on Yamasaki et al. (2020) in J Mar Biol Ass UK added.

25.May. 2020: Information on Rucci et al. (2020) in Zootaxa added.

13 Sep. 2019: Information on Adrianov & Maiorova (2019) in Prog. Oceanogr. added.

28 Aug. 2019: Information on the papers in the 5th Scalidophora Workshop Special Volume in Zool. Anz. added.

04 Jul. 2019: Information on Randsø et al. (2019) in Invert. Syst. and Cepeda et al. (2019) in Mar. Biodiv. added.

15 Apr. 2019: Information on Sánchez et al. (2019) in Marine Biodiversity added.

27 Feb. 2019: Information on Neuhaus et al. (2019) in Zootaxa added.

26 Nov. 2018: Information on Adrianov & Maiorova (2018) in Deep Sea Res. II revised; that on Yamasaki & Durucan (2018) added.

26 Oct. 2018: Information on Adrianov & Maiororva (2018) in Russ. J. Mar. Biol. is added.

04 Oct. 2018: Information on Landers & Sørensen (2018) in Bull. Mar. Sci. and Sørensen & Grzelak (2018) in PeerJ is added.

13 Sep. 2018: The first version is created.