The first record of a rare marine tardigrade, Halobiotus crispae Kristensen, 1982 (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae), from the Svalbard Archipelago

Polar Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1243-1247

  Smykla, Jerzy ^a,b   Kaczmarek, Łukasz ^c   Huzarska, Katarzyna ^d   Michalczyk, Łukasz ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Halobiotus crispae; Intertidal flats; New record; Spitsbergen; Tardigrada

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RARE SPECIES;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EUTARDIGRADA; HALOBIOTUS CRISPAE; HYPSIBIIDAE; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 79960472217     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-011-0986-1     Document Type: Article

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