Publications by authors named "Katarzyna Vonina"
Article Synopsis
- The paper discusses the challenges in tardigrade taxonomy, particularly regarding the Echiniscus genus, which has been inflated with species largely due to historical misemphasis on chaetotaxy rather than dorsal plate features.
- Researchers review the Echiniscus species from the West Palaearctic, providing re-descriptions based on various population data and introducing new SEM and molecular data for specific species.
- Numerous synonymizations are proposed, clarifying relationships between species and identifying two new dubious species, aimed at rectifying taxonomic confusion in the field.
The first publications on the Afrotropical tardigrade fauna date back to the beginning of the 20th century. However, the knowledge on the faunal composition, diversity and evolution of African tardigrades, including the speciose family Echiniscidae, is still fragmentary. Here, we present an extensive systematic, biogeographic, and ecological survey of echiniscid fauna of the southernmost part of the Afrotropical realm.
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