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Echiniscus wendti Richters 1903
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Description
38. Echiniscus wendti Richters, 1903 [T]
Echiniscus wendti (Iharos 1969a)
Terra typica: Svalbard (Spitsbergen)
Cameroon:
• 04°10′N, 09°13′E; 1,300–1,500 m asl: Southwest Region, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Cameroon, rainforest, moss on tree. Iharos (1969a)
Record numbers. Cameroon: 1; total: 1.
Remarks. This member of the arctomys group (see E. reticulatus above) has a largely Holarctic distribution (McInnes 1994; Kaczmarek et al. 2016); all other records need confirmation (Kaczmarek et al. 2015).
Notes
Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Echiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Richters
- Species
- wendti
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus wendti Richters, 1903 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017
References
- Iharos, G. (1969 a) Tardigraden aus Mittelwestafrika. Opuscula Zoologica (Budapest), 9, 115 - 120.
- McInnes, S. J. (1994) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. JouRnal of NatuRal HistoRy, 28, 257 - 352. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131
- Kaczmarek, L, Michalczyk, L. & McInnes, S. J. (2015) Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America. Zootaxa, 3923 (1), 1 - 107. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3923.1.1