Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand, 1981

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Bartels, Paul J., Roszkowska, Milena & Nelson, Diane R., 2015, The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada, Zootaxa 4037 (1), pp. 1-189 : 161

193. Echiniscoides travei Bellido & Bertrand, 1981

Echiniscoides travei n. sp. ( Bellido & Bertrand 1981)

Terra typica: Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Islands)

Indian Ocean:

• 49°31′S, 69°54′E; 0.5–2.1 m bsl: [FAO58] Type locality: Kerguelen Islands, Longue Island, Port-Bizet, rocky coastline, mediolittoral, on algae (Poryphyra sp.) associated with green algae ( Ulothrix sp.). Bellido & Bertrand (1981)

Record numbers (Sea/Ocean classification): Indian Ocean: 1; total: 1.

Record numbers (FAO classification): FAO58: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: This species is known only from the type locality and it is probably closely related to E. horningi , E. s. porphyrae and E. s. verrucariae , which are also known from the sub-Antarctic and similar habitats.