New Records of Antarctic Tardigrada with Comments on Interpopulation Variability of the Paramacrobiotus fairbanksi Schill, Förster, Dandekar and Wolf, 2010

• Published in: Diversity
• Main Authors: Łukasz Kaczmarek, Monika Mioduchowska, Uroš Kačarević, Katarzyna Kubska, Ivan Parnikoza, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Milena Roszkowska
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: cosmopolitism; dispersal; zoogeography; “everything is everywhere” hypothesis; fauna; water bears; Antarctic; Water Bears; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tardigrade
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/d12030108

Studies on Antarctic tardigrades started at the beginning of the twentieth century and have progressed very slowly and ca. 75 tardigrade species are known from this region. Paramacrobiotus fairbanksi was described from USA based on genetic markers and later reported from Italy, Poland, and Spain. Th...