Sitalcicus gardineri (Hirst, 1911:391)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Sitalces gardineri Hirst, 1911:391 (basionym)
Treated by Roewer (1912:188,198) under Sitalces, before Roewer (1923:158-159) erected the genus Sitalcicus and transferred Sitalces gardineri to it.
Conservation Status
Extinct (Gerlach, 2014b)
Last record: 1908 (Gerlach, 2014b)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Mahé, Seychelles
Type locality: Mahé (Hirst, 1911:392)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Type specimen: female (mutilated) (Hirst, 1911:392)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hirst, Arthur Stanley. (1911). The Areneæ, Opiliones and Pseudoscorpiones. Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905 under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. (2) 14(3): 379-395. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1911.tb00535.x
Other references:
Gerlach, Justin. (2014a). Sitalcicus gardineri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T196768A21579740. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T196768A21579740.en. Downloaded on 03 January 2016.
Gerlach, Justin. (2014b). Sitalcicus gardineri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T196768A21579740. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T196768A21579740.en. Accessed on 14 June 2022.
Gerlach, Justin and Marusik, Yuri M. (2010). Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester.
Rambla, M. (1984 "1983"). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Sechelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J van Mol 1972). Opiliones (Arachnida). Annalen Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika Tervuren 242: 1‑86. [volume 242 appears to have been published in 1984, despite both 1983 and 1984 appearing on the title page (source)]
Roewer, Carl Friedrich. (1912). Die Familien der Assamiiden und Phalangodiden der Opiliones-Laniatores. (= Assamiden, Dampetriden, Phalangodiden, Epedaniden, Biantiden, Zalmoxiden, Samoiden, Palpipediden anderer Autoren). Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, Abt. A, Original-Arbeiten 78A(3): 1-242. [Issued July 1912]
Roewer, Carl Friedrich. (1923). Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones. Jena: Gustav Fischer. 1116 pp.
Roewer, Carl Friedrich. (1949). Über Phalangodiden II. Weitere Weberknechte XIV. Senckenbergiana 30(4-6): 247-289, 12 tt. [20 December]
Staręga, Wojciech Krzysztof. (1992). An annotated check-list of Afrotropical harvestmen, excluding the Phalangiidae (Opiliones). Ann. Natal Mus. 33(2): 271-336. [October]
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