Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand 1981
- Dataset
- The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Echiniscoidea
- family
- Echiniscoididae
- genus
- Echiniscoides
- species
- Echiniscoides travei
description
Echiniscoides travei n. sp. (Bellido & Bertrand 1981) Terra typica: Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Islands) Indian Ocean: • 49 ° 31 ′ S, 69 ° 54 ′ E; 0.5 – 2.1 m bsl: [FAO 58] Type locality: Kerguelen Islands, Longue Island, Port-Bizet, rocky coastline, mediolittoral, on algae (Poryphyra sp.) associated with green algae (Ulothrix sp.). Bellido & Bertrand (1981) Record numbers (Sea / Ocean classification): Indian Ocean: 1; total: 1. Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO 58: 1; total: 1.
discussion
Remarks: This species is known only from the type locality and it is probably closely related to E. horningi, E. s. porphyrae and E. s. verrucariae, which are also known from the sub-Antarctic and similar habitats.