Echiniscus wendti Richters, 1903

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, Zootaxa 4284 (1), pp. 1-74 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049962
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scientific name	Echiniscus wendti Richters, 1903
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38. Echiniscus wendti Richters, 1903 View in CoL [T]

Echiniscus wendti ( Iharos 1969a) View in CoL

Terra typica : Svalbard (Spitsbergen)

Cameroon:

• 04°10′N, 09°13′E; 1,300–1,500 m asl: Southwest Region, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Cameroon, rainforest, moss on tree. Iharos (1969a)

Record numbers. Cameroon: 1; total: 1.

Remarks. This member of the arctomys group (see E. reticulatus above) has a largely Holarctic distribution ( McInnes 1994; Kaczmarek et al. 2016); all other records need confirmation ( Kaczmarek et al. 2015).