Echiniscoides sigismundi
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Echiniscoides sigismundi is a species of marine tardigrades. It lives in seaweeds[1] or plates of barnacles, or more generally in algal strongholds in inter-tidal areas.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Echiniscoides sigismundi is the type species of Echiniscoides the oldest genus of tardigrades.[4] The genus was monotypic from 1899 to 1976.
Before the description of Echiniscoides by Ludwig Hermann Platte in 1888, they were a species of Echiniscus and were Echiniscus sigismundii.
Distribution
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
Echiniscoides sigismundi becomes turgid in freshwater, but can survive up to three days, resuming normal activity as osmotic differential returns to normal.[6]
Infraspecies
- 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
References
- ^ a b Marcus, E. (1936). Arthropoda: Tardigrada (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 34. ISBN 9783111434629.
- ^ "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 9780080920146.
- ^ Cahiers de biologie marine - Volume 16, Issues 1-3 - Page 122, 1975
- ^ 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 9780520239395.
- ^ Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Aquatic ecology series. James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich (editors). Academic Press. 2010. p. 467. ISBN 9780123748553.
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Bibliography
- 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 9780125069502. ISSN 0082-1101.
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