Proechiniscus hanneae
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Tardigrada |
| Class: | Heterotardigrada |
| Order: | Echiniscoidea |
| Family: | Echiniscidae |
| Genus: | Proechiniscus Kristensen, 1987 |
| Species: | Proechiniscus hanneae (Petersen, 1951) |
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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
- ↑ 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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