Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen, 1951

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1CD17B31-E3D0-4BFB-8B69-144D97949038

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049969

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED740D-3206-7E54-FF6B-F98E6EAEF873

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Plazi

scientific name

Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen, 1951
status

sensu lato

41. Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen, 1951 View in CoL sensu lato [T]

Pseudechiniscus suillus ( Ehrenberg, 1853) View in CoL forma facettalis Petersen, 1951 ( Haspeslagh 1982) View in CoL 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) GoogleMaps

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Tardigrada

Class

Heterotardigrada

Order

Echiniscoidea

Family

Echiniscidae

Genus

Pseudechiniscus

Loc

Pseudechiniscus facettalis Petersen, 1951

Kaczmarek, Łukasz 2017
2017
Loc

Pseudechiniscus suillus ( Ehrenberg, 1853 )

Kaczmarek 2017
2017
Loc

facettalis

Petersen 1951
1951
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