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Echiniscus jenningsi Dastych 1984
Description
26. Echiniscus jenningsi Dastych, 1984 [T]
E. jenningsi (Garitano-Zavala 1996)
Terra typica: Antarctica (South Shetland Islands)
Bolivia:
• 16°13′S, 68°13′W; 4,550–4,700 m asl: La Paz, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Tuni, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)
Record numbers: Bolivia: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: Records based on only one adult and two ‘larvae’ (Garitano-Zavala 1995), probably of a new species (Garitano-Zavala pers. com.). Requires verification for South America.
Notes
Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 3923 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Echiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Dastych
- Species
- jenningsi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus jenningsi Dastych, 1984 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Dastych, H. (1984) The Tardigrada from Antartica with description of several new species. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 27, 377 - 436.
- Garitano-Zavala, B. A. (1996) Efecto de la humedad microambiental y la altura, sobre la distribucion de la Tardigradifauna Muscicola (Phylum Tardigrada) en la vertiente occidental de la Cordillera Real de los Andes (La Paz, Bolivia). Ecologia en Bolivia, 26, 1 - 48.
- Garitano-Zavala, A. B. (1995) Primer reporte de las especies de tardigrados muscicolas (Phylum Tardigrada) presentes en la vertiente occidental de Cordillera Real de los Andes (La Paz - Bolivia), Ecologia en Bolivia, 24, 1 - 39.