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Multipseudechiniscus raneyi
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Multipseudchiniscus

Schulte & Miller, 2011
Species:
Multipseudechiniscus raneyi

Synonyms
  • Pseudechiniscus raneyi Grigarick, Mihelčič & Schuste, 1964

'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

  1. ^ Schulte & Miller, 2011, vol. 114, no. 1/2, p. 117.
  2. ^ Miller, Schulte & Johansson, 2012 : Tardigrades of North America: further description of the genus Multipseudechiniscus Schulte & Miller, 2011 (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea: Echiniscidae) from California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 125, no 2, p. 153-164.

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