Echiniscus wendti Richters 1903
- Dataset
- Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Echiniscoidea
- family
- Echiniscidae
- genus
- Echiniscus
- species
- Echiniscus wendti
description
Cameroon: • 04 ° 10 ′ N, 09 ° 13 ′ E; 1,300 – 1,500 m asl: Southwest Region, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Cameroon, rainforest, moss on tree. Iharos (1969 a) Record numbers. Cameroon: 1; total: 1.
discussion
Remarks. This member of the arctomys group (see E. reticulatus above) has a largely Holarctic distribution (McInnes 1994; Kaczmarek et al. 2016); all other records need confirmation (Kaczmarek et al. 2015).
Name
- Homonyms
- Echiniscus wendti Richters 1903