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Higgins, R. P. (1985). The genus Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from the English Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 65(3): 785-800.
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10.1017/s0025315400052590 [view]
Higgins, R. P.
1985
The genus Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from the English Channel
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
65(3): 785-800
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English Channel
Biodiversity, Taxonomic and ecological diversity
Marine
Marine interstitial
Meiobenthos
Morphology
Marine
Marine interstitial
Meiobenthos
Morphology
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Echinoderes krishnaswamyi Higgins, 1985 (original description)
Echinoderes kristenseni Higgins, 1985 (original description)
Echinoderes worthingii Zelinka, 1928 (redescription)
Echinoderes kristenseni Higgins, 1985 (original description)
Echinoderes worthingii Zelinka, 1928 (redescription)
Holotype BMNH BM(NH) 1962.85, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes krishnaswamyi Higgins, 1985
Holotype USNM W81001, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes kristenseni Higgins, 1985
Paratype USNM W81002, W81003, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes kristenseni Higgins, 1985
Nontype USNM W96034, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes worthingii Zelinka, 1928
Nontype USNM W97282, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes worthingii Zelinka, 1928
Holotype USNM W81001, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes kristenseni Higgins, 1985
Paratype USNM W81002, W81003, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes kristenseni Higgins, 1985
Nontype USNM W96034, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes worthingii Zelinka, 1928
Nontype USNM W97282, geounit English Channel, identified as Echinoderes worthingii Zelinka, 1928
Etymology
This new species is named in honour of the first scientist to recognize it as a potentially undescribed species, ... [details]
Etymology
This species is named in honour of Dr Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, University of Copenhagen. [details]
Synonymy
Synonymy according to Higgins (1985, p. 799): not Echinoderes dujardinii in the Mediterranean Sea as reported by ... [details]
Taxonomic remark
First report of two specimens of a species Echinoderella which is described later by Higgins (1985) as Echinoderes ... [details]
Taxonomy
Krishnaswamy 1962: p. 62, incorrectly considers Pycnophyes dentatus as a junior synonym of E. worthingi [details]