Platicrista angustata Murray 1905

Platicrista angustata (Murray 1905) No special morphological variation was noted. Eight out of the ten specimens collected showed ocular spots. Mean body size was 938 μm (SD 127), range 594 to 1628 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, Asia, America, Africa and the Arctic. This is the first rec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guil, Noemí
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Platicrista
Platicrista angustata
Arctic
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5626388
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5626388
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Summary:Platicrista angustata (Murray 1905) No special morphological variation was noted. Eight out of the ten specimens collected showed ocular spots. Mean body size was 938 μm (SD 127), range 594 to 1628 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, Asia, America, Africa and the Arctic. This is the first record for the Iberian Peninsula (Table 2). Platicrista angustata appeared at six sampling points (Table 3) from LF and MR samples. Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 19, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.181845

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