First record of the tardigrade Echiniscus testudo (Doyère, 1840) from northeast of Iran (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)

Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics

مقاله 2، دوره 14، شماره 1، 2018، صفحه 7-14   

نوع مقاله: Research articles

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22067/ijab.v14i1.64344

نویسندگان

Farahnaz Molavi^{* 1}؛ Ali Mokhtari²؛ Simin Nayebi Moghaddam³؛ Seyed Mohammad Javad Abedian⁴؛ Z. Azimi Taraghdari⁴

¹ferdowsi university

²Islamic Azad University of Mashhad

³azad university

⁴Azad University

چکیده

Tardigrada is a phylum closely allied with the arthropods. They are small (0.05-1.20 mm), hygrophilous micrometazoans, have four pairs of lobe-like legs and are either carnivorous or feed on plant material. Most of the tardigrade species are limno-terrestrial. In two moss and lichen samples collected in Mashhad, one heterotardigrade species was found. Echiniscus testudo (Doyère, 1840) belongs to the Echiniscidae group and differs from most of other species in this group mainly by having a different claw configuration and by some morphometric characters. This study is the first report of tardigrades from Iran.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Ecdysozoan؛ Water bears؛ Middle East؛ Tardigrada؛ Biogeography؛ Diversity

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