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Echiniscus mediantus Marcus 1930
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24. Echiniscus mediantus Marcus, 1930 [T]
E. mediantus (Ramløv & Kristensen 1985)
Terra typica: Scotland (Europe)
Morocco:
• 33°04′N, 05°00′W; 2,000 m asl [2,100 m asl]: Meknès-Tafilalet Region, near Aguelmane de Si-Ali (Col du Zad) [Aguelmame Sidi Ali lake], scattered basalt blocks (lava field) lying on the shores of the lake, mosses taken on basalt blocks. Ramløv & Kristensen (1985)
Record numbers. Morocco: 1; total: 1.
Remarks. With reports mainly from Europe, Greenland and Morocco (McInnes 1994), this species has a Palaearctic distribution.
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
- Marcus
- Species
- mediantus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus mediantus Marcus, 1930 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017
References
- Marcus, E. (1930) Beitrage zur Tardigradensystematik. Zoologische JahRbucheR Abteilung fuR Systematik, Okologie und GeogRaphie deR TieRe, 59, 363 - 386.
- Ramlov, H. & Kristensen, R. M. (1985) Bjornedyr, Tardigrada. Marokko - 1985. Dansk NatuRhistoRisk FoRenings Rejse til MaRokko, 8 - 22 ApRil 1985, pp. 27 - 32.
- 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