New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series
Author
Guil, Noemí
text
Zootaxa
2008
1757
1
30
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.181845
29cad3d2-5685-4e65-9690-3604790334f6
1175-5326
181845
Platicrista angustata
(Murray 1905)
No special morphological variation was noted. Eight out of the ten specimens collected showed ocular spots. Mean body size was 938 μm (SD 127), range 594 to 1628 μm. The species has been cited for Europe, Asia,
America
, Africa and the Arctic. This is the first record for the Iberian Peninsula (
Table 2
).
Platicrista angustata
appeared at six sampling points (Table 3) from LF and MR samples.