Tardigrada from North America

Mathews, G.

doi:10.2307/2420476

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“…Only in Texas had extensive sampling been carried out. Three studies (Mathews, 1938;Mehlen, 1969;Caskey, 1971) reported a total of 18 species in that state. Tardigrades were unknown in Louisiana and Mississippi, and in Alabama and Florida only four species were known (Christenberry, 1979;Christenberry & Higgins, 1979;Christenberry & Mason, 1979).…”

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Interspecific Association and Substrate Specificity in Tardigrades from Florida, Southeastern United States

Meyer

2006

Hydrobiologia

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The distribution of terrestrial tardigrades in the Gulf Coast states of the United States is poorly known. Only one species has been reported in Florida. In this study moss, liverwort, lichen and fern samples (47 identified species) from trees and shrubs were collected from all 67 Florida counties. These samples contained 20 species of tardigrade. All possible pairs of tardigrade species and tardigrade and substrate were tested for interspecific association. Only three significant negative and one positive interspecific association between tardigrades were detected. Evidence for substrate specificity was weak. Although some tardigrade species were significantly associated with mosses or foliose lichens in general, no significant association between a tardigrade species and a substrate species was detected.

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Interspecific Association and Substrate Specificity in Tardigrades from Florida, Southeastern United States

Meyer

2006

Hydrobiologia

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“…Richters (1908) and Murray (1910) published the first Canadian surveys. Mathews (1938) reported 32 species from North America, including 12 in the United States. The first record of the phylum in Nearctic Mexico (May 1948) reported a single species, supplemented thereafter by only two studies (Schuster 1971;Hoffman & Jimé-nez 1994).…”

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Limno-terrestrial Tardigrada of the Nearctic Realm

Meyer¹,

Hinton²

2007

J Limnol

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“…Mehlen (1969) surveyed Brazos County in Texas, Hinton & Meyer (2006) collected in 8 counties in western and southern Mississippi, Meyer (2001) collected in two Louisiana parishes (in Louisiana the parish is a unit of local government corresponding to counties in other states), while two studies (Nichols et al 2001) focused on north-central Alabama. Other papers (Mathews 1938;Beasley 1968Beasley , 1988Bernard 1977;Christenberry 1979;Christenberry & Higgins 1979;Christenberry & Mason 1979;Grigarick et al 1983;Pilato & Binda 2003;Meyer 2006b) mention the tardigrades of the region only in passing or focus on descriptions of new species.…”

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confidence: 99%