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Platicrista angustata Murray 1905

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Platicrista angustata (Murray 1905)

No special morphological variation was noted. Eight out of the ten specimens collected showed ocular spots. Mean body size was 938 μm (SD 127), range 594 to 1628 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, Asia, America, Africa and the Arctic. This is the first record for the Iberian Peninsula (Table 2). Platicrista angustata appeared at six sampling points (Table 3) from LF and MR samples.

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Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845

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Biodiversity

Family
Hypsibiidae
Genus
Platicrista
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Murray
Species
angustata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Platicrista angustata Murray, 1905 sec. Guil, 2008