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Echiniscus perarmatus Murray 1907

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28. Echiniscus perarmatus Murray, 1907a [T]

E. perarmatus sp. n. (Murray 1907a)

E. perarmatus, Murray (Murray 1907b)

Echiniscus perarmatus Murray 1907 (Binda et al. 2001)

Terra typica: Republic of South Africa (Africa)

Democratic Republic of Congo:

01°10′S, 28°28′E; 1,000 m asl: North Kivu Province, outskirts of Mohanga, moss (Entodon sp.). Binda et al. (2001) Republic of South Africa:

29°44′S, 22°44′E: Type Locality: Undefined locality, Cape Colony [Cape Province]. Murray (1907a, b) Record numbers. Democratic Republic of Congo: 1, Republic of South Africa: 1; total: 2. Remarks. A locally abundant species reported from a limited number of tropical and subtropical localities in

Africa, Indonesia, Hawaii, North and South America (McInnes 1994).

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 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Murray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Tardigrada
Order
Echiniscoidea
Family
Echiniscidae
Genus
Echiniscus
Species
perarmatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Echiniscus perarmatus Murray, 1907 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017

References

  • Murray, J. (1907 a) Some South African Tardigrada. JouRnal of the Royal MicRoscopical Society, 5, 515 - 524. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2818.1907. tb 01665. x
  • Murray, J. (1907 b) Encystment of Tardigrada. TRansactions of the Royal Society of EdinbuRgh, 45, 837 - 854. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0080456800022869
  • 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