Multipseudechniscus raneyi

'Multipseudechiniscus raneyi' is a species of tardigrades. It is the only species of Multipseudechiniscus which belongs to the family Echiniscidae.

The species were named after F.C. Raney by Albert A. Grigarick, Franc Mihelčič & Robert O. Schuster in 1951 and was a species of Pseudechiniscus, it became placed with its own genus of Multipseudechinscus by Rachael Schulte & William Randy Miller in 2011 with its etymology Greco-Latin, multi- (Latin for many) and Pseudechiniscus due to that tardigrade having many forms like a Pseudechiniscus species.

The species is endemic to the western United States^[1] in the states of California, Oregon and also in Montana west of the Continental Divide.^[2]

References

Further reading

• Schulte & Miller, 2011 : Tardigrades of North America: the elevation of a new genus from California. Abstracts of the 143rd Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, April 8–9, 2011. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
• Grigarick, Mihelčič & Schuster, 1964 : New Tardigrada from western North America. 1. Pseudechiniscus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 77, p. 5-8

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