Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen 1951, sensu lato
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41. Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen, 1951 sensu lato [T]
Pseudechiniscus suillus (Ehrenberg, 1853) forma facettalis Petersen, 1951 (Haspeslagh 1982) Terra typica: Greenland
Kenya:
• 00°10′S, 37°18′E; 4,270 m asl: Nyeri County, Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya, Teleki Tarn, small effluent and shallow pond, silt, sediments and sandy gravel. Haspeslagh (1982)
Tunisia:
• 36°43'19''N, 08°43'30''E; 474 m asl: Jendouba Governorate, Beni M'tir, forest, moss on soil. Gąsiorek et al. (2017)
Record numbers. Kenya: 1, Tunisia: 1; total: 2.
Remarks. A widespread taxon (McInnes 1994a), in the suillus species complex. Only two individuals were identified in Kenyan samples and from a non-typical (aquatic) habitat, which coupled with the type locality (Greenland) indicates this African record requires re- examination.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Pseudechiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Petersen
- Species
- facettalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudechiniscus facettalis , 2017
References
- Petersen, B. (1951) The Tardigrade fauna of Greenland. A faunistic study with some few ecological remarks. MeddelseR om GROnland, KObenhavn, 150 (5), 5 - 94.
- Ehrenberg, C. G. (1853) Diagnoses novarum formarum. VeRhandlungen deR Koniglich PReussische Akademie deR Wissenschaften zu BeRlin, 8, 526 - 533.
- Haspeslagh, G. (1982) Tardigrada from Mount Kenya. Scientific report of the Belgian Mt. Kenya Bio-Expedition, 1975. no 21. Revue de Zoologie AfRicaine, 96, 905 - 911.
- Gasiorek, P., Morek, W., Stec, D., Marnissi, J. & Michalczyk, L. (2017) The tardigrade fauna of Tunisia, with an integrative description of BRyodelphax maculatus sp. nov. (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea). African Zoology. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 15627020.2017.1297688
- 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