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Echiniscus reticulatus Murray 1905

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32. Echiniscus reticulatus Murray, 1905a [T]

Echiniscus Reticulatus J. Murray, 1905 (Teunissen 1938)

Terra typica: Scotland (Europe)

Democratic Republic of Congo:

• 01°18′S, 29°29′E; 2,250 m asl [2,100 m asl]: North Kivu Province, Albert National Park [Virunga National Park], Tshamugussa (Bweza area, SW[sic] (north west) of Visoke and Musule volcanoes), soil. Teunissen (1938)

Record numbers. Democratic Republic of Congo: 1; total: 1.

Remarks. A species known from a few (Asian and European) Palaearctic localities (McInnes 1994); but this single African/ tropical report requires confirmation. Echiniscus reticulatus belongs to the arctomys group, which is currently considered a species complex nested within the larger (possibly polyphyletic) ‘ arctomys group’ – sensu Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983). This African record requires an integrated morphological/ molecular verification.

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED740D32197E4BFF6BFC596C4DFAAB

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1010400 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD40C7532177E45FFFCFFEB6D1DFF96 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/1CD17B31-E3D0-4BFB-8B69-144D97949038 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03ED740D32197E4BFF6BFC596C4DFAAB (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/135435551 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/31842/taxon/03ED740D32197E4BFF6BFC596C4DFAAB.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Echiniscidae
Genus
Echiniscus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Echiniscoidea
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Murray
Species
reticulatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Echiniscus reticulatus Murray, 1905 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017

References

  • Murray, J. (1905 a) The Tardigrada of the Scottish Lochs. TRansactions of the Royal Society of EdinbuRgh EaRth Sciences, 41, 677 - 698. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0080456800035547
  • Teunissen, R. J. H. (1938) Tardigraden. ExploRation du PaRc National AlbeRt, Mission de Witte, 16, 1 - 21.
  • 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
  • Ramazzotti, G. & Maucci, W. (1983) Il Phylum Tardigrada. MemoRie dell'Istituto Italiano di IdRobiologia, 41, 1 - 1012.