WoRMS name details
original description
Greeff, R. (1869). Untersuchungen über einige merkwürdige Thiergruppen des Arthropoden- und Wurm-Typus. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 35(1): 71-121., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7058414 [details]
taxonomy source
Zelinka, K. (1928). Monographie der Echinodera. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-396, plates I-XXVII. note: Information by Greeff (1869) reproduced, diagnosis given. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors [request]
Syntype uncatalogued, geounit Lanzarote [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Neuhaus (2013): description based on adult with head + neck (= Greeff’s body segment 1) + 11 trunk segments (comp. Greeff 1869: pp. 5-7) [details]
Etymology [The name of the species was derived from its original location at one of the Canary Islands.] [details]
Taxonomy Pardos et al. (1998: p. 196): designated as species inquirendum because only a juvenile stage was originally described. [details]
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