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Echiniscoides sigismundi subsp. groenlandicus Kristensen & Hallas 1980

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186. Echiniscoides sigismundi groenlandicus Kristensen & Hallas, 1980

Echiniscoides sigismundi groenlandicus subsp. n. (Kristensen & Hallas 1980) E. s. groenlandicus (Faurby et al. 2011)

Echiniscoides sigismundi groenlandicus Kristensne & Hallas, 1980 (Miller et al. 2014) Terra typica: Baffin Bay (Greenland, Arctic)

Atlantic Ocean:

41°26′N, 71°27′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO21] USA, Rhode Island State, Washington County, S part of Narragansett, barnacles (Balanus balanoides) on a pier. Kristensen & Hallas (1980), Hallas & Kristensen (1982)

Baffin Bay:

71°00′N, 52°00′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO21] Undefined locality, Greenland, Sarquaq, barnacles (Balanus balanoides). Kristensen & Hallas (1980)

70°40′N, 52°07′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO21] Greenland, Umanak [Uummannaq], barnacles (Balanus balanoides). Kristensen & Hallas (1980)

69°15′N, 53°33′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO21] Type Locality: West Greenland, Disko Island, Godhavn [Qeqertarsuaq], intertidal, beside the shrimp factory, barnacles (Balanus balanoides) on rocks. Kristensen & Hallas (1980)

68°43′N, 52°52′W; 0 m bsl: [FAO21] Greenland, Egedesminde [Aasiaat], barnacles (Balanus balanoides). Kristensen & Hallas (1980)

Barents Sea:

73°05′N, 53°12′E; 0 m bsl: [FAO27] Russia, Novaya Zemlya, Pan’kova Zemlya Peninsula. Biserov (1999)

Norwegian Sea:

69°39′N, 18°58′E; 0 m bsl: [FAO27] Norway, Troms County, Tromsø, barnacles (Balanus balanoides). Kristensen & Hallas (1980)

Pacific Ocean:

36°58′27′′N, 122°01′51′′W [34 ° 03′N, 119 ° 43′W]; 0 m bsl: [FAO77] USA, California State, Santa Barbara County, Channel Islands, Santa Cruz Island, intertidal barnacles and tide pool shell fragments, debris, gravel, and sand. Miller et al. (2014)

Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Atlantic Ocean: 1, Baffin Bay: 4, Barents Sea: 1, Norwegian Sea: 1, Pacific Ocean: 1; total: 8.

Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO21: 5, FAO27: 2, FAO77: 1; total: 8.

Remarks: This subspecies has been reported from isolated localities in cold northern hemisphere waters (mainly sub-Arctic) and always in association with barnacles (but see remarks for Echiniscoides s. sigismundi). Faurby et al. (2011) included examples of this species from the entire known range, but for their analysis combined all subspecies as E. sigismundi. As it was not possible to differentiate between localities for E. s. groenlandicus and E. s. sigismundi, we decided to add all Faurby et al. (2011) records to E. s. sigismundi sensu lato.

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 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519

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  • Kristensen, R. M. & Hallas, T. E. (1980) The tidal genus Echiniscoides and its variability, with erection of Echiniscoididae fam. n. (Tardigrada). Zoologica Scripta, 9, 113 - 127. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1980. tb 00657. x
  • Faurby, S., Jorgensen, A., Kristensen, R. M. & Funch, P. (2011) Phylogeography of North Atlantic intertidal tardigrades: refugia, cryptic speciation and the history of the Mid-Atlantic Islands. Journal of Biogeography, 38, 1613 - 1624. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2699.2011.02533. x
  • Hallas, T. E. & Kristensen, R. M. (1982) Two new species of the tidal genus Echiniscoides from Rhode Island, U. S. A. (Echiniscoididae, Heterotardigrada). In: Nelson, D. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Tardigrada. East Tennessee State University Press, Johnson City, Tennessee, pp. 179 - 192.
  • Biserov, V. I. (1999) A review of the Tardigrada from Novaya Zemlya; with description of three new species and an evaluation of the state of the environment in the region. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 238, 169 - 182.