Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand 1981

• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena, Nelson, Diane R.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Echiniscoidea; Echiniscoididae; Echiniscoides; Echiniscoides travei; Antarc*; Antarctic; Kerguelen Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632773; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5435063FF3EFF31FF18FE02FAE0FCF7

193. Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand, 1981 Echiniscoides travei n. sp. (Bellido & Bertrand 1981) Terra typica : Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Islands) Indian Ocean: • 49°31′S, 69°54′E; 0.5–2.1 m bsl: [FAO58] Type locality: Kerguelen Islands, Longue Island, Port-Bizet, rocky coastline, mediolittoral, on algae ( Poryphyra sp.) associated with green algae ( Ulothrix sp.). Bellido & Bertrand (1981) Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Indian Ocean: 1; total: 1. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO58: 1; total: 1. Remarks: This species is known only from the type locality and it is probably closely related to E. horningi , E. s. porphyrae and E. s. verrucariae , which are also known from the sub-Antarctic and similar habitats. Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, pp. 1-189 in Zootaxa 4037 (1) on page 161, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4037.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233519