Testechiniscus spitsbergensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Echiniscoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Tardigrada Classis: Heterotardigrada Ordo: Echiniscoidea

Familia: Echiniscidae
Genus: Testechiniscus
Species: Testechiniscus spitsbergensis

Testechiniscus spitsbergensis Scourfield, 1897

Scourfield, D.J., 1897. Contributions to the Non-Marine Fauna of Spitsbergen: Part I: Preliminary Notes, and Reports on the Rhizopoda, Tardigrada, Entomostraca, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1987, Part III: 784–792.

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