Echiniscus canadensis J. Murray 1910

• Main Authors: Fontoura, Paulo, Pilato, Giovanni, Lisi, Oscar
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Echiniscoidea; Echiniscidae; Echiniscus; Echiniscus canadensis; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234511; https://zenodo.org/record/6234511

Echiniscus canadensis J. Murray, 1910 Material examined . One two-clawed larva from Faial Island (Parque Florestal); eleven specimens (four larvae, five females, two specimens of unknown sex) from Pico Island (Lages do Pico). All the specimens were mounted in Hoyer’s medium with a small amount of potassium iodide. Filament A, very short spine E, filament C d and spine D d and the pattern of cuticular sculpture typical of the species (Ramazzotti & Maucci, 1983) were present in all the studied specimens. Body length 109–142 µm for the two-clawed larvae, 206–281 µm for the adults. The species is recorded from various localities of the Palaearctic region and in North and South America. : Published as part of Fontoura, Paulo, Pilato, Giovanni & Lisi, Oscar, 2008, Echiniscidae (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada) from Faial and Pico Islands, the Azores, with the description of two new species, pp. 49-61 in Zootaxa 1693 on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180650 : {"references": ["Murray, J. (1910) Tardigrada. Reports of the Scientific Investigations of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909, 1 (5), 81 - 185.", "Ramazzotti, G. & Maucci, W. (1983) Il Phylum Tardigrada. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia Dott. Marco de Marchi, Pallanza, 41, 1 - 1012."]}