Gąsiorek Piotr, Vončina Katarzyna, Kristensen Reinhardt Møbjerg, Michalczyk Łukasz
Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland. E-mail:
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail:
Zool Stud. 2021 Dec 13;60:e70. doi: 10.6620/ZS.2021.60-70. eCollection 2021.
Taiwan lies at the transitional zone between the East Palaearctic and Oriental regions, which translates into both Palaearctic and Indomalayan taxa being present on the island. Furthermore, large habitat heterogeneity and high mountains contributed to the rise of conditions favouring allopatric speciation and the emergence of endemic species. The tardigrade fauna of Taiwan is poorly studied, and the aim of this contribution is to provide new data on the members of the family Echiniscidae, the largest limno-terrestrial group of the class Heterotardigrada, found at high elevations in central Taiwan. We report 11 species grouped in 5 genera: (1 species), (3 species), (1 species), (2 species), and (4 species). All are new to Taiwan, including 5 species that are new to science, 4 or which are described herein by means of integrative taxonomy: sp. nov. (the morphogroup), () sp. nov., () sp. nov., and () sp. nov. The new findings also help to clarify the description of Beasley, 1999, and supplement the phylogenies of the complex and of the genera , and .
台湾位于古北界和东洋界的过渡地带，这使得古北界和东洋界的分类群都出现在该岛上。此外，巨大的栖息地异质性和高山促使有利于异域物种形成的条件增加，以及特有物种的出现。台湾的缓步动物区系研究较少，本论文的目的是提供关于棘影熊虫科成员的新数据，棘影熊虫科是异缓步纲中最大的淡水陆地类群，发现于台湾中部的高海拔地区。我们报告了归为5个属的11个物种：（1个物种）、（3个物种）、（1个物种）、（2个物种）和（4个物种）。所有这些物种对台湾来说都是新发现，包括5个新物种，其中4个在此通过综合分类法进行描述：新物种（形态类群）、（）新物种、（）新物种和（）新物种。这些新发现也有助于澄清1999年比斯利的描述，并补充了复合体以及属、和的系统发育。
