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Echiniscoides horningi Miller & Kristensen 1999
Description
183. Echiniscoides horningi Miller & Kristensen, 1999
Echiniscoides horningi sp. nov. (Miller & Kristensen 1999)
Terra typica: Pacific Ocean (Macquarie Island, sub-Antarctic)
Pacific Ocean:
• 54°30′S, 158°52′E; 0 m bsl: [FAO81] Type Locality: sub-Antarctic, Macquarie Island, W coast of N tip of the island, supralittoral zone, lichen Caloplaca subjected to heavy sea spray. Miller & Kristensen (1999)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Pacific Ocean: 1; total: 1.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO81: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: Known only from the type locality, this species is probably closely related to E. travei, E. s. porphyrae and E. s. verrucariae, which are also known from similar habitats in the sub-Antarctic.
Notes
Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 4037 (1) on page 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscoididae
- Genus
- Echiniscoides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Miller & Kristensen
- Species
- horningi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscoides horningi Miller, 1999 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Miller, W. R. & Kristensen, R. M. (1999) Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic: A new species of the marine genus Echiniscoides from Macquarie Island, Subantarctica. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 238, 289 - 294.