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Echiniscus canadensis J. Murray 1910
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Echiniscus canadensis J. Murray, 1910
Material examined. One two-clawed larva from Faial Island (Parque Florestal); eleven specimens (four larvae, five females, two specimens of unknown sex) from Pico Island (Lages do Pico). All the specimens were mounted in Hoyer’s medium with a small amount of potassium iodide.
Filament A, very short spine E, filament C d and spine D d and the pattern of cuticular sculpture typical of the species (Ramazzotti & Maucci, 1983) were present in all the studied specimens.
Body length 109–142 µm for the two-clawed larvae, 206–281 µm for the adults.
The species is recorded from various localities of the Palaearctic region and in North and South America.
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Published as part of Fontoura, Paulo, Pilato, Giovanni & Lisi, Oscar, 2008, Echiniscidae (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada) from Faial and Pico Islands, the Azores, with the description of two new species, pp. 49-61 in Zootaxa 1693 on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180650Files
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.180650 (DOI)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/F6611419CE25FF49EBD4172EFA06F99C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Echiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- J. Murray
- Species
- canadensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus canadensis Murray, 1910 sec. Fontoura, Pilato & Lisi, 2008
References
- Murray, J. (1910) Tardigrada. Reports of the Scientific Investigations of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909, 1 (5), 81 - 185.
- Ramazzotti, G. & Maucci, W. (1983) Il Phylum Tardigrada. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia Dott. Marco de Marchi, Pallanza, 41, 1 - 1012.