Echiniscoides sigismundi
| Echiniscoides sigismundi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Tardigrada |
| Class: | Heterotardigrada |
| Order: | Echiniscoidea |
| Family: | Echiniscoididae |
| Genus: | Echiniscoides |
| Species: | E. sigismundi
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| Binomial name | |
| Echiniscoides sigismundi (M. Schultze, 1865)
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| Synonyms | |
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Echiniscus sigismundi M. Schultze, 1865 | |
Echiniscoides sigismundi is a species of marine tardigrade. It lives in seaweeds[1] or plates of barnacles, or more generally in algal strongholds in inter-tidal areas.[2][3]
Taxonomy
[edit]Echiniscoides sigismundi is the type species of Echiniscoides.[4] Described in 1865 as Echiniscus sigismundii, it was placed in a separate genus by Ludwig Hermann Plate in 1888.
Distribution
[edit]By 1936, it was reported in most seas of Northern Europe, and in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.[1]
The Light and Smith Manual[5] describes its distribution as cosmopolitan, in the upper inter-tidal.
Osmobiosis
[edit]Echiniscoides sigismundi becomes turgid in freshwater, but can survive up to three days, resuming normal activity as osmotic differential returns to normal.[6]
Infraspecies
[edit]- Echiniscoides sigismundi galliensis Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
- Echiniscoides sigismundi groenlandicus Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
- Echiniscoides sigismundi hispaniensis Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
- Echiniscoides sigismundi mediterranicus Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
- Echiniscoides sigismundi polynesiensis Renaud-Mornant, 1976
- Echiniscoides sigismundi porphyrae Grimaldi de Zio, Gallo D'Addabbo and Pietanza, 2000
- Echiniscoides sigismundi sigismundi (M. Schultze, 1865)
- Echiniscoides sigismundi verrucariae Grimaldi de Zio, Gallo D'Addabbo and Pietanza, 2000
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Marcus, E. (1936). Arthropoda: Tardigrada (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 34. ISBN 978-3-11-143462-9.
- ^ "UK species inventory: Echiniscoides sigismundi (Schultze, 1865)". Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ^ Margulis, Lynn (2009). Kingdoms and Domains: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth. Academic Press. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-08-092014-6.
- ^ Pollock, L.W. (1975). "Observations on marine Heterotardigrada, including a new genus from the western Atlantic Ocean" (PDF). Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16: 121–32.
- ^ Sol Felty Light (2007). The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon. James T. Carlton (Editor). University of California Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.
- ^ James H. Thorp; Alan P. Covich, eds. (2010). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Aquatic ecology series. Academic Press. p. 467. ISBN 978-0-12-374855-3.
Bibliography
[edit]- R.O. Schuster, and A. A. Grigarick, 1965. Tardigrada from Western North America With Emphasis on the Fauna of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, vol. 76: 1-67.
- Roberto Guidetti and Roberto Bertolani, 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa, issue 845: 1-46. Abstract
- Peter Degma, Roberto Bertolani|, Roberto Guidetti, 2010. Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (Ver. 12: 16-04-2010). [1]
- D. J. Crisp and J. Hobart. A note on the habitat of the marine tardigrade Echiniscoides sigismundi (Shultze) (Payment needed for full article) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser 12, 7: 554-560
- Clive I. Morgan, Philip Ernest King (1976). British Tardigrades, Tardigrada: Keys and Notes for the Identification of the Species. New series, Synopses of the British fauna. Vol. 9. Linnean Society of London. ISBN 978-0-12-506950-2. ISSN 0082-1101.
External links
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Data related to Echiniscoides sigismundi at Wikispecies