Echiniscoides sigismundi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Heterotardigrada
Order: Echiniscoidea
Family: Echiniscoididae
Genus: Echiniscoides
Species:
E. sigismundi
Binomial name
Echiniscoides sigismundi
(M. Schultze, 1865)
Synonyms

Echiniscus sigismundi M. Schultze, 1865

Echiniscoides sigismundi is a species of marine tardigrade. It lives in seaweeds[1] or plates of barnacles, or more generally in algal strongholds in inter-tidal areas.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Echiniscoides sigismundi is the type species of Echiniscoides.[4] Described in 1865 as Echiniscus sigismundii, it was placed in a separate genus by Ludwig Hermann Plate in 1888.

Distribution

By 1936, it was reported in most seas of Northern Europe, and in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.[1]

The Light and Smith Manual[5] describes its distribution as cosmopolitan, in the upper inter-tidal.

Osmobiosis

Echiniscoides sigismundi becomes turgid in freshwater, but can survive up to three days, resuming normal activity as osmotic differential returns to normal.[6]

Infraspecies

  • Echiniscoides sigismundi galliensis Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi groenlandicus Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi hispaniensis Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi mediterranicus Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi polynesiensis Renaud-Mornant, 1976
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi porphyrae Grimaldi de Zio, Gallo D'Addabbo and Pietanza, 2000
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi sigismundi (M. Schultze, 1865)
  • Echiniscoides sigismundi verrucariae Grimaldi de Zio, Gallo D'Addabbo and Pietanza, 2000

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Marcus, E. (1936). Arthropoda: Tardigrada (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 34. ISBN 978-3-11-143462-9.
  2. ↑ "UK species inventory: Echiniscoides sigismundi (Schultze, 1865)". Retrieved 15 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Margulis, Lynn (2009). Kingdoms and Domains: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth. Academic Press. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-08-092014-6.
  4. ↑ Pollock, L.W. (1975). "Observations on marine Heterotardigrada, including a new genus from the western Atlantic Ocean" (PDF). Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16: 121–32.
  5. ↑ Sol Felty Light (2007). The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon. James T. Carlton (Editor). University of California Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-520-23939-5.
  6. ↑ James H. Thorp; Alan P. Covich, eds. (2010). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Aquatic ecology series. Academic Press. p. 467. ISBN 978-0-12-374855-3.

Bibliography

  • R.O. Schuster, and A. A. Grigarick, 1965. Tardigrada from Western North America With Emphasis on the Fauna of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, vol. 76: 1-67.
  • Roberto Guidetti and Roberto Bertolani, 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa, issue 845: 1-46. Abstract
  • Peter Degma, Roberto Bertolani|, Roberto Guidetti, 2010. Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (Ver. 12: 16-04-2010).
  • D. J. Crisp and J. Hobart. A note on the habitat of the marine tardigrade Echiniscoides sigismundi (Shultze) (Payment needed for full article) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser 12, 7: 554-560
  • Clive I. Morgan, Philip Ernest King (1976). British Tardigrades, Tardigrada: Keys and Notes for the Identification of the Species. New series, Synopses of the British fauna. Vol. 9. Linnean Society of London. ISBN 978-0-12-506950-2. ISSN 0082-1101.

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