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Echiniscus kerguelensis Richters 1904, sensu lato
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Description
21. Echiniscus kerguelensis Richters, 1904a sensu lato [T]
E. (E.) kerguelensis Richters 1904 (Marcus 1936)
Terra typica: Kerguelen Island (South Indian Ocean)
Namibia:
• 20°28′S, 16°39′E; 1,600 m asl [1,500 m asl]: Otjozondjupa Region, Otjiwarongo. Marcus (1936)
Record numbers. Namibia: 1; total: 1.
Remarks. The record for three eggs in exuvia and a two clawed juvenile, suggests a tentative identification. Originally described from the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, this species requires a redescription from the type locality before the various records attributed to this species can be clarified.
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 13, 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
- kerguelensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus kerguelensis , 2017
References
- Richters, F. (1904 a) Vorlaufiger Bericht uber die Antarktische Moosfauna. VeRhandlungen deR Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 1904, 236 - 239.
- Marcus, E. (1936) TaRdigRada. Das TieRReich, 66, 1 - 340.