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Testechiniscus macronyx
Description
68. Testechiniscus macronyx (Richters, 1908a) sensu lato [T]
Echiniscus (Echiniscus) macronyx Richters, 1907 (de Barros 1942a)
Terra typica: South Georgia (Maritime Antarctic)
Brazil:
• 23°33′S, 46°38′W; 750 m asl: São Paulo State, São Paulo, mosses. de Barros (1942a)
Record numbers: Brazil: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: It is not possible to say whether these Brazilian specimens are Testechiniscus macronyx (as re-described, McInnes 1994b), but description and drawings (de Barros 1942a) suggest this probably belong to either a different Testechiniscus species or even the Echiniscus arctomys group.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Testechiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Richters
- Species
- macronyx
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Testechiniscus macronyx (Richters, 1908) sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Richters, F. (1908 a) Moosbewohner. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Sudpolar-Expedition (1901 - 1903), Stockholm, 6, 1 - 16. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 6756
- Richters, F. (1907) Die Fauna der Moosrasen des Gaussbergush. IX Tardigraden. Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, 9 (4), 292 - 304.
- De Barros, R. (1942 a) Tardigrados de Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil. I. Introducao. Generos Echiniscus e Pseudechiniscus. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 2, 257 - 269.
- McInnes, S. J. (1994 b) Rediscovery of the species Echiniscus macronyx Richters, 1907 on South Georgia, South Atlantic, its new systematic position and redescription within the genus Testechiniscus. Bollettino di Zoologia, 61, 83 - 87. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 11250009409355863