Echiniscoides sigismundi is a species of marine
tardigrade. It lives in seaweeds[1] or plates of barnacles, or more generally in algal strongholds in inter-tidal areas.[2][3]
Echiniscoides sigismundi becomes turgid in freshwater, but can survive up to three days, resuming normal activity as osmotic differential returns to normal.[6]
Infraspecies
Echiniscoides sigismundi galliensis Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
Echiniscoides sigismundi groenlandicus Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
Echiniscoides sigismundi hispaniensis Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
Echiniscoides sigismundi mediterranicus Kristensen and Hallas, 1980
^Sol Felty Light (2007). The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon. James T. Carlton (Editor). University of California Press. p. 296.
ISBN978-0-520-23939-5.
^James H. Thorp; Alan P. Covich, eds. (2010). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates. Aquatic ecology series. Academic Press. p. 467.
ISBN978-0-12-374855-3.
Bibliography
R.O. Schuster, and A. A. Grigarick, 1965. Tardigrada from Western North America With Emphasis on the Fauna of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, vol. 76: 1-67.
Roberto Guidetti and Roberto Bertolani, 2005. Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification. Zootaxa, issue 845: 1-46.
Abstract
Peter Degma, Roberto Bertolani|, Roberto Guidetti, 2010. Actual checklist of Tardigrada species (Ver. 12: 16-04-2010).
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Clive I. Morgan, Philip Ernest King (1976). British Tardigrades, Tardigrada: Keys and Notes for the Identification of the Species. New series, Synopses of the British fauna. Vol. 9. Linnean Society of London.
ISBN978-0-12-506950-2.
ISSN0082-1101.