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Spinoloricus neuhausi is a species of Loricifera and of the genus Spinoloricus.

Characteristics
f S. neuhausi nov. sp. is characterized by, among other features, a mouth cone with eight oral ridges of two different lengths and with a tiny furca, a unique double mouth cone pleat, a mouth tube telescoping inside the mouth cone; an introvert with eight rows of scalids (7th row is missing), the second row with nine leg-like spinoscalids, the third row with seven club-shaped scalids with thick hairs, the fourth row with 16 spinoscalids of two types, the eighth row with 30 very long unsegmented spinoscalids which possess a swollen base with a ventral row of minute hairs, the ninth row with 30 beak-like scalids alternating with 30 round plates each with a minute spine projecting posteriorly; a neck with eight single trichoscalids alternating with seven double trichoscalids (as in all Nanaloricidae), though the two elements in the double trichoscalids are well-separated; a lorica with eight cuticular plates and intercalary plicae, which have the anterior edge with a V- or a double arch shape; lorica with additional lateral spikes located at the corners of the 14 lorical spikes.

Etymology
The species name is in honour of Dr. Birger Neuhaus, who collected and provided us with all the loriciferan specimens from the R/V Sonne expedition SO 158 including the specimen studied here.

Description
The total length of the holotypic postlarva from the tip of the mouth tube to the most posterior part of the anal cone is 273 μm.Since the specimen used in this study is a postlarva moulting into an adultall measurements were made on the postlarval exuvium. The lorica of the postlarva is approximately 144 m in length (including lorical spikes) and has a maximum width of 113 m