Description

Diagnosis. Small, fairly slender Austrognathia (mean length 730 µm, width 97.5 µm; index 7.47; see Table 2). Basal plate 6.60 µm long, 22.60 µm wide (index 0.29), with conspicuous median and lateral lobes. Jaws 21.2 µm in length; dorsal tooth row with 7 short, even teeth; ventral row with 4 – 8 longer, uneven-sized teeth. Conuli large and blunt (30.75 µm long by 22.42 µm wide; index 1.37), with capitulum enveloping two thirds of the conulus (capitulum length 20.17 µm; index 1.62).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Gnathostomulida

Order: Bursovaginoidea

Family: Austrognathiidae

Genus: Austrognathia

Species: Austrognathia glandifera Achatz & Sterrer, 2015