Proechiniscus hanneae

Proechiniscus hanneae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Tardigrada
Class: Heterotardigrada
Order: Echiniscoidea
Family: Echiniscidae
Genus: Proechiniscus
Species: Proechiniscus hanneae
(Petersen, 1951)
Synonyms
  • Pseudechiniscus hanneae Petersen, 1951

Proechiniscus hanneae is a species of tardigrades. It is the only species of Proechiniscus which belongs to the family Echiniscidae.

The species is endemic to Greenland. They are mainly founded around Disko Island.[1]

The species were named by Børge Petersen in 1951 and was a species of Pseudechiniscus, it became placed with its own genus of Proechinscus by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen in 1987.

References

  1. ↑ Brandt, Thomsen, Heide-Jorgensen, Kristensen & Ruhberg, 1999 : The 1998 Danish-German Excursion to Disko Island, West Greenland. Berichte zur Polarforschung, Bremerhaven, Bundesrepublik Deutschland : Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polarforschung, no. 330.

Further reading

  • Kristensen, 1987 : Generic revision of the Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada), with a discussion of the origin of the family. Collana U.Z.I. Selected Symposia and Monographs, no. 1, p. 261-335.
  • Petersen (1951), The Tardigrade fauna of Greenland. A faunistic study with some few ecological remarks.;; Meddelelser om Gronland, vol. 150, no. 5, p. 1-94.


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