Echiniscoides sigismundi subsp. groenlandicus Kristensen & Hallas 1980
- Dataset
- The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada
- Rank
- SUBSPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Echiniscoidea
- family
- Echiniscoididae
- genus
- Echiniscoides
discussion
Remarks: This subspecies has been reported from isolated localities in cold northern hemisphere waters (mainly sub-Arctic) and always in association with barnacles (but see remarks for Echiniscoides s. sigismundi). Faurby et al. (2011) included examples of this species from the entire known range, but for their analysis combined all subspecies as E. sigismundi. As it was not possible to differentiate between localities for E. s. groenlandicus and E. s. sigismundi, we decided to add all Faurby et al. (2011) records to E. s. sigismundi sensu lato.