New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
New description of Echiniscus viridis Murray, 1910 and
remarks on the viridis group
Giovanni Pilato1
Paulo Fontoura2
Oscar Lisi1
1Department of Animal Biology “Marcello La Greca”
University of Catania
Via Androne 81, 95124
Catania, Italy
pilato@unict.it
2Eco-Ethology Research Unit (FCT-331/94) and Department
of Zoology and Anthropology
Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto
Pr. Gomes Teixeira 4099-002 Porto
Portugal
pfontoura@fc.up.pt
Abstract The type material of Echiniscus
viridis
Murray, 1910 is probably lost. Here we give a new description of this
species from two specimens from the type locality (Hawaiian Islands)
deposited in the collection of the late Robert O. Schuster (Bohart
Museum of Entomology of California, Davis, United States). The validity
of the other species of the group viridis is confirmed, and the
need to confirm the records of E. viridis from geographical
areas different from the type locality is stressed.
Keywords Echiniscus viridis;
Echiniscus viridis
group; Hawaiian Islands; Tardigrada
Z07037; Online publication date 22 February 2008; Received 17 July
2007; accepted 22 November 2007
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2008, Vol. 35: 85–92
0301–4223/08/3501–0085 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2008
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