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Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick 1966
Description
27. Echiniscus kofordi Schuster & Grigarick, 1966 [T]
Terra typica: Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos Island, Ecuador, Pacific Ocean)
Venezuela:
• 09°51′N, 72°50′W; 700 m asl: Region Zuliana, Zulia, El Tucuco, tropical forest in foothills of Sierra De Perija, bordering a grassland biome, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)
Record numbers: Venezuela: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: The species has a tropical-subtropical New World distribution (McInnes 1994a, Kaczmarek et al. 2014a).
Notes
Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 3923 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Echiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Schuster & Grigarick
- Species
- kofordi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus kofordi Schuster, 1966 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Schuster, R. O. & Grigarick, A. A. (1966) Tardigrada from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 34, 315 - 328.
- Grigarick, A. A., Schuster, R. O. & Nelson, D. R. (1983) Heterotardigrada of Venezuela (Tardigrada). Pan-Pacific Entomology, 59, 64 - 77.
- McInnes, S. J. (1994 a) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. Journal of Natural History, 28, 257 - 352. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131
- Kaczmarek, L., Michalczyk, L. & McInnes, S. J. (2014 a) Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part I: Central America. Zootaxa, 3763 (1), 1 - 62. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3763.1.1