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Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, 2019 The chapter shows anatomy, geographical distribution and taxonomical key of tardigrades from the palearctic region.
D. Nelson, R. Guidetti, L. Rebecchi
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New records of Mexican Tardigrada Nuevos registros de Tardigrada mexicanos
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2011 In 9 moss samples collected from Mexico, 6 tardigrade species, including 4 new records for the country, were found. The new records raise the number of known Mexican water bear species to forty-one.
Łukasz Kaczmarek +2 more
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Aquatic tardigrades in Poland – a review
Limnological Review, 2021 The diversity, distribution and ecology of aquatic Tardigrada in Poland remain poorly known. We reviewed the literature focused on tardigrades in Poland and recognized only 15 aquatic taxa which were reported from various freshwater and marine habitats ...
Kayastha Pushpalata +3 more
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Polar Biology, 2023 Glaciers are inhabited by various cryophilic organisms ranging from single celled to multicellular, like Tardigrada (water bears). Owing to their scattered distribution, glaciers represent extremely fragmented habitats, and it remains unclear how their ...
K. Zawierucha +13 more
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First record of the tardigrade Echiniscus testudo (Doyère, 1840) from northeast of Iran (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2018 Tardigrada is a phylum closely allied with the arthropods. They are small (0.05-1.20 mm), hygrophilous micrometazoans, have four pairs of lobe-like legs and are either carnivorous or feed on plant material.
farahnaz Molavi +4 more
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The European Zoological Journal, 2023 Tardigrades have been recorded from a variety of habitats including mosses, lichens, leaflitter, streams, and marine sediments; however, reports from rock pools are still scarce.
M. Vecchi +5 more
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Tardigrades and oribatid mites in bryophytes from geothermally active lava fields (Krafla, Iceland) and the description of Pilatobius islandicus sp. nov. (Eutardigrada) [PDF]
Polish Polar Research, 2018 In polar regions, apart from tundra and glaciers, geothermally active areas with elevated temperatures are important elements of ecosystems. One such geothermally active region characterized by mosaic ecosystems and vast areas covered by recent lava ...
Jakub Buda +3 more
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023 The genera Xerobiotus and Pseudohexapodibius are xerophilic and characterized by reduced appendages and claws as adaptations to move between small interstices.
J. Vincenzi +7 more
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Halloween genes in panarthropods and the evolution of the early moulting pathway in Ecdysozoa [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Moulting is a characteristic feature of Ecdysozoa—the clade of moulting animals that includes the hyperdiverse arthropods and less speciose groups, such as onychophorans, tardigrades and nematodes.
Isabell Schumann +4 more
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The European Zoological Journal, 2021 In this paper we applied an integrative taxonomy approach to describe a new tardigrade species from Madagascar. The description is based on morphological and morphometric data (using both light and scanning electron microscopy), combined with genetic ...
K. A. Kuzdrowska +6 more
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