Echiniscus merokensis Richters 1904

• Main Authors: Rossi, Gustavo, Claps, Maria, Ardohain, Diego
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Echiniscoidea; Echiniscidae; Echiniscus; Echiniscus merokensis; Patagonia; Argentina; Gustavo; Arktis*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6216103; https://zenodo.org/record/6216103

Echiniscus merokensis Richters, 1904 Our finding disagrees with Kristensen’s (1987) suggestion about the restricted preference of this species to a soil habitat. This species is considered cosmopolitan (McInnes, 1994; Fontoura et al ., 2008). In Argentina, E. merokensis was previously recorded in Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego (Claps et al. , 2008). : Published as part of Rossi, Gustavo, Claps, Maria & Ardohain, Diego, 2009, Tardigrades from northwestern Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina) with the description of three new species, pp. 21-36 in Zootaxa 2095 on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187610 : {"references": ["Richters, F. (1904) Arktische Tardigraden. Fauna Arctica, 3, 495 - 508.", "McInnes, S. J. (1994) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. Journal of Natural History, 28, 257 - 352.", "Fontoura, P., Pilato, G. & Lisi, O. (2008) Echiniscidae (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada) from Faial and Pico Islands, the Azores, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa, 1693, 49 - 61.", "Claps, M. C., Rossi, G. C. & Ardohain, D. M. (2008) Tardigrada. In: Claps, L. E., Debandi, G. & Roig-Junent, S. (Dirs.), Biodiversidad de Artropodos Argentinos. Vol. 2. Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, Mendoza, pp. 63 - 77."]}