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Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand 1981
Description
193. Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand, 1981
Echiniscoides travei n. sp. (Bellido & Bertrand 1981)
Terra typica: Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Islands)
Indian Ocean:
• 49°31′S, 69°54′E; 0.5–2.1 m bsl: [FAO58] Type locality: Kerguelen Islands, Longue Island, Port-Bizet, rocky coastline, mediolittoral, on algae (Poryphyra sp.) associated with green algae (Ulothrix sp.). Bellido & Bertrand (1981)
Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Indian Ocean: 1; total: 1.
Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO58: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: This species is known only from the type locality and it is probably closely related to E. horningi, E. s. porphyrae and E. s. verrucariae, which are also known from the sub-Antarctic and similar habitats.
Notes
Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 4037 (1) on page 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscoididae
- Genus
- Echiniscoides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Bellido & Bertrand
- Species
- travei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscoides travei Bellido, 1981 sec. Kaczmarek, Bartels, Roszkowska & Nelson, 2015
References
- Bellido, A. & Bertrand, M. (1981) Echiniscoides travei n. sp., un Tardigrade marin des iles Kerguelen (Heterotardigrada). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Serie 4 e, 3, 789 - 798.