Continued Exploration of Tanzanian Rainforests Reveals a New Echiniscid Species (Heterotardigrada)
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Continued Exploration of Tanzanian Rainforests Reveals a New Echiniscid Species (Heterotardigrada). / Bochnak, Marcin; Voncina, Katarzyna; Kristensen, Reinhardt M.; Gasiorek, Piotr.
In: Zoological Studies, Vol. 59, 18, 2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Continued Exploration of Tanzanian Rainforests Reveals a New Echiniscid Species (Heterotardigrada)
AU - Bochnak, Marcin
AU - Voncina, Katarzyna
AU - Kristensen, Reinhardt M.
AU - Gasiorek, Piotr
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Afrotropical tardigrade fauna is insufficiently studied, and consequently its diversity in this region is severely underestimated. Ongoing sampling in the Udzungwa Mountains, Morogoro Region of Tanzania has revealed a new representative of the genus Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840 (Echiniscidae). Echiniscus tantulus sp. nov. belongs to the spinulosus group, but it stands out from other members of this speciose Echiniscus Glade by having a heteromorphic sculpture of the dorsal plates and an uncommonly stable body appendage configuration A-C-C-d-D-d-E. The new species is characteristic by being equipped with long dorsal spines and very short lateral spicules, which so far have been found only in one other species of the group, Echiniscus spinulosus (Doyere, 1840). An updated checklist of Tanzanian Echiniscidae is provided, incorporating recent advances in their classification.
AB - The Afrotropical tardigrade fauna is insufficiently studied, and consequently its diversity in this region is severely underestimated. Ongoing sampling in the Udzungwa Mountains, Morogoro Region of Tanzania has revealed a new representative of the genus Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840 (Echiniscidae). Echiniscus tantulus sp. nov. belongs to the spinulosus group, but it stands out from other members of this speciose Echiniscus Glade by having a heteromorphic sculpture of the dorsal plates and an uncommonly stable body appendage configuration A-C-C-d-D-d-E. The new species is characteristic by being equipped with long dorsal spines and very short lateral spicules, which so far have been found only in one other species of the group, Echiniscus spinulosus (Doyere, 1840). An updated checklist of Tanzanian Echiniscidae is provided, incorporating recent advances in their classification.
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Chaetotaxy
KW - Cuticular sculpturing
KW - The spinulosus group
KW - Udzungwa Mountains
KW - TARDIGRADA HETEROTARDIGRADA
KW - EUTARDIGRADA MACROBIOTIDAE
KW - IQ-TREE
KW - MOUNTAINS
KW - TAXONOMY
KW - COMPLEX
KW - FAUNA
KW - MAFFT
U2 - 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-18
DO - 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-18
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33262842
VL - 59
JO - Zoological Studies
JF - Zoological Studies
SN - 1021-5506
M1 - 18
ER -
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