Echiniscoides horningi Miller & Kristensen 1999
- Dataset
- The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Echiniscoidea
- family
- Echiniscoididae
- genus
- Echiniscoides
- species
- Echiniscoides horningi
description
Echiniscoides horningi sp. nov. (Miller & Kristensen 1999) Terra typica: Pacific Ocean (Macquarie Island, sub-Antarctic) Pacific Ocean: • 54 ° 30 ′ S, 158 ° 52 ′ E; 0 m bsl: [FAO 81] Type Locality: sub-Antarctic, Macquarie Island, W coast of N tip of the island, supralittoral zone, lichen Caloplaca subjected to heavy sea spray. Miller & Kristensen (1999) Record numbers (Sea / Ocean classification): Pacific Ocean: 1; total: 1. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO 81: 1; total: 1.
discussion
Remarks: Known only from the type locality, this species is probably closely related to E. travei, E. s. porphyrae and E. s. verrucariae, which are also known from similar habitats in the sub-Antarctic.