Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters 1908
- Dataset
- Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Echiniscoidea
- family
- Echiniscidae
- genus
- Echiniscus
- species
- Echiniscus bigranulatus
description
Echiniscus bigranulatus n. sp. (Richters 1908 a) Echiniscus bigranulatus mihi (Richters 1911 a)
discussion
Remarks: This bona fida species belongs to the Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and, is easily mistaken for other members of the group (see: Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006 a, 2007), thus all records prior to 2006 require confirmation. There is a single record from China (Yang 2007) but as this genus appears to have a Gondwanan distribution the Chinese specimen (s) should be considered dubious and must be reevaluated.