New Indomalayan Nebularmis species (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) provoke a discussion on its intrageneric diversity [PDF]
Zoological Letters, 2021 Recent years have brought undeniable progress in tardigrade taxonomy, and speciose complexes were detected in a number of phylogenetic lineages. The family Echiniscidae is one such lineage; it is one of the most diverse groups of limno-terrestrial ...
Piotr Gąsiorek +5 more
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Revised Cornechiniscus (Heterotardigrada) and new phylogenetic analyses negate echiniscid subfamilies and tribes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Echiniscidae are undoubtedly the most thoroughly studied lineage of the class Heterotardigrada. Recently, new subfamilies and tribes grouping echiniscid genera based on traditionally recognized morphological clues have been proposed. Here, by integrative
Piotr Gąsiorek, Łukasz Michalczyk
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Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered? [PDF]
Environ Microbiol RepEndosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia are recognized for their role in influencing host survival and stress resistance, particularly in cold environmental conditions across various species. However, our analysis of available data reveals a notable absence of Wolbachia in species abundant in the extreme cold conditions of Antarctica.
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Halechiniscidae (Heterotardigrada, Arthrotardigrada) of Oura Bay, Okinawajima, Ryukyu Islands, with descriptions of three new species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2015 Marine tardigrades of the family Halechiniscidae (Heterotardigrada: Arthrotardigrada) are reported from Oura Bay, Okinawajima, one of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, including Dipodarctus sp., Florarctus wunai sp. n., Halechiniscus churakaagii sp.
Shinta Fujimoto
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Comparative myoanatomy of Tardigrada: new insights from the heterotardigrades Actinarctus doryphorus (Tanarctidae) and Echiniscoides sigismundi (Echiniscoididae) [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Tardigrada is a group of microscopic invertebrates distributed worldwide in permanent and temporal aquatic habitats. Famous for their extreme stress tolerance, tardigrades are also of interest due to their close relationship with Arthropoda ...
Dennis Krog Persson +5 more
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The European Zoological JournalTardigrades, or water bears, are microscopic invertebrates renowned for their extraordinary resilience and cryptic diversity. Their microscopic size, paucity of taxonomically distinctive morphological characters and limited molecular data have caused ...
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High Mountain Echiniscid (Heterotardigrada) Fauna of Taiwan. [PDF]
Zool Stud, 2021 Taiwan lies at the transitional zone between the East Palaearctic and Oriental regions, which translates into both Palaearctic and Indomalayan taxa being present on the island.
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The European Zoological Journal, 2022 In this paper, samples of mosses and lichens collected from Ivohibory Forest (south-central Madagascar) were studied in search for tardigrades. In total, 39 tardigrade taxa were identified, 21 of which are new records for Madagascar.
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Eventually tested: Phylogenetic position of “Testechiniscus” meridionalis (Murray, 1906) (Heterotardigrada) revealed [PDF]
, 2023 Gąsiorek, Piotr (2023): Eventually tested: Phylogenetic position of "Testechiniscus" meridionalis (Murray, 1906) (Heterotardigrada) revealed. Zoologischer Anzeiger 304: 49-60, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.02.004, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2023.02 ...
Gąsiorek, Piotr, Piotr Gąsiorek
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Knowledge about marine tardigrades from the South China Sea is very scarce, with only four species from shallow waters recorded to date. The present study investigated the structure and diversity of tardigrade communities from the deep sea (1517-1725 m ...
Xiaogu Wang +9 more
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