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13 - Ubiquity of microscopic animals? Evidence from the morphological approach in species identification

from Part IV - Pluricellular eukaryotes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

By
Tom Artois ,
Diego Fontaneto ,
William D. Hummon ,
Sandra J. McInnes ,
M. Antonio Todaro ,
Martin V. Sørensen  and
Aldo Zullini
Edited by
Diego Fontaneto
Tom Artois
Affiliation:
Hasselt University
Diego Fontaneto
Affiliation:
Swedish Museum of Natural History
William D. Hummon
Affiliation:
Ohio University
Sandra J. McInnes
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey
M. Antonio Todaro
Affiliation:
Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia
Martin V. Sørensen
Affiliation:
Natural History Museum of Denmark
Aldo Zullini
Affiliation:
Università di Milano-Bicocca
Diego Fontaneto
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
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Introduction

Zoologists always hope to find unusual and interesting new animals in exotic places. Over the last few centuries, scientific expeditions in remote places outside Europe and North America have indeed discovered new species and even higher taxa of vertebrates, insects and other macroscopic animals, completely different from the ones previously known in the home country. In contrast, scientists working on microscopic animals, looking at samples from remote areas, have often found organisms that could be ascribed to familiar species. Microscopic animals have thus been considered not interesting in biogeography, as their distribution may not be limited by geography.

Are microscopic animals really widely distributed? Is their cosmopolitanism an actual biological property or only a common misconception based on false assumptions and unreliable evidence? Is the scenario more complex than the claimed clear-cut difference between micro- and macroscopic animals? This chapter will review all the faunistic knowledge gathered so far on the global distribution of free-living microscopic animals smaller than 2 mm (gastrotrichs, rotifers, tardigrades, micrognathozoans, cycliophorans, loriciferans, kinorhynchs and gnathostomulids). Moreover, we will deal with microscopic free-living species in other groups of animals such as nematodes and flatworms, which have both micro- and macroscopic species. The focus will be on species identification from traditional taxonomy based on morphology, whereas Chapter 14 will deal with more recent evidence gathered from analyses on molecular phylogeny and phylogeography from the same groups.

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Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms
Is Everything Small Everywhere?
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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