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We report on the history and the progress made towards understanding tardigrade biogeography. We have updated our data and provided new analyses of both limno-terrestrial and marine tardigrade faunas to show the limitations of the earlier techniques, demonstrated newer ideas and highlighted the regions requiring further study.

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We thank Oliva Martin-Sanchez (BAS, Cambridge) for providing the maps for Figs. 4.1 and 4.4.

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  2. Department of Biology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

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McInnes, S.J., Pugh, P.J.A. (2018). Tardigrade Biogeography. In: Schill, R. (eds) Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades. Zoological Monographs, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95702-9_4

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