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Echiniscus merokensis subsp. suecicus Thulin 1911
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26. Echiniscus merokensis suecicus Thulin, 1911 [T]
Echiniscus meRokensis Richters forma suecica Thulin, 1911 (da Cunha & do Nascimento 1964) Terra typica: Sweden (Europe)
Angola:
• 07°25′S, 15°06′E; 850 m asl: Uíge Province, Mahondo, lichens. da Cunha & do Nascimento (1964)
Record numbers. Angola: 1; total: 1.
Remarks. A subspecies, which with further analysis may be elevated to species is recorded mainly from European localities, Greenland and Angola (McInnes 1994). Probably a Palaearctic taxon.
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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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Echiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Thulin
- Species
- suecicus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus merokensis subsp. suecicus Thulin, 1911 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017
References
- Thulin, G. (1911) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Tardigradenfauna Schwedens. ARkiv foR Zoologi, 7, 1 - 60. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1270
- Da Cunha, A. X. da & Nascimento Ribeiro, F. (1964) Tardigrados de Angola. GaRcia de ORta, Lisboa, 12, 397 - 406.
- 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