Marine Species Traits - Florarctus kwoni Chang & Rho, 1997

WoRMS taxon details

Florarctus kwoni Chang & Rho, 1997

AphiaID

342664 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342664)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Florarctus Delamare Deboutteville & Renaud-Mornant, 1965

Original name

Florarctus kwoni Chang & Rho, 1997

Environment

marine

Original description

Chang, C.Y. & Rho, H.S. (1997). Two new marine tardigrades from Palawan Island, the Philippines. <em>The Korean Journal of Biological Sciences,.</em> 1: 419-423. [details] Available for editors

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Type data

Holotype USNM, geounit Quezon

Holotype USNM, geounit Quezon [details]

, Type locality contained in Philippines part of the South China Sea

type locality contained in Philippines part of the South China Sea (origin: native - endemic) [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution This species is known only from the type locality.

Distribution This species is known only from the type locality. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Guidetti, R.; McInnes, S.J.; Kristensen, R.M. (2025). World List of Tardigrada. Florarctus kwoni Chang & Rho, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342664 on 2025-06-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-04-09 14:04:46Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2016-01-29 13:31:56Z

changed

Guidetti, Roberto

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Chang, C.Y. & Rho, H.S. (1997). Two new marine tardigrades from Palawan Island, the Philippines. <em>The Korean Journal of Biological Sciences,.</em> 1: 419-423. [details] Available for editors

[request]

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

Other

additional source Degma, P.; Bertolani, R.; Guidetti, R. (2009-2016). Actual checklist of Tardigrada species. (Assessed 10/02/2017) pp. 46., available online at http://www.tardigrada.modena.unimo.it/miscellanea/Actual%20checklist%20of%20Tardigrada.pdf [details]