Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

75 11 PHYLUM TARDIGRADA (WATER BEARS) JÁNOS VÁNGEL made collections of microscopic fauna in Lake Fertő in 1892. His collections were processed by JENŐ DADAY (1897), who found a single species of water bear in the lake. Water-bear specimens collected in the Kőszeg district by ALADÁR VISNYA, mainly in mosses, were identified by ALFONZ IHAROS,

1 along with others found during collecting trips organized by the Zoosystematics Department of the Péter Pázmány University of Sciences in Budapest. A total of 18 species were found in the district (IHAROS 1937a), of which one (Echiniscus batramiae) was described as new to science (IHAROS 1936). In a later publication (IHAROS 1937b), he presented the species and their places of occurrence in the West Hungarian border region.

2 1 VARGHA, В. 2000. 90 éves a Somogy megyei zoológus pap-tudós, Iharos Gyula (Somogy County zoologist priest-scientist Gyula Iharos 90 years old). Somogyi Múzeumok Közleményei 14:383-8; EIBEN, О. 1998. Dr. Iharos Alfonz, a tudós premontrei tanár és hatása a magyar biológiára (Dr Alfonz Iharos, scientist and Premonstratensian teacher, and his influence on Hungarian biology). In A Szombathelyi Premontrei Rendi Szent Norbert Gimnázium Évkönyve az 1997/98. tanévről (Yearbook of St Norbert's Premonstratension Grammar School, Szombathely, 1997/8 School Year), 53-8. Szombathely. 2 IHAROS, GY. 1967. Liste der Tardigraden Ungarns. Acta zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 13:125-38; idem 1985. Revidierter Katalog der Tardigraden Ungarns. Miscellanea zoologica hungarica 3:19-30; VARGHA, В. 1996. New data to the Hungarian tardigrade fauna with a revised list of species. Folia entomologica hungarica 57:285-90.