Echiniscus madonnae Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006
Description
29. Echiniscus madonnae Michalczyk & Kaczmarek, 2006 a [T]
Echiniscus madonnae sp. nov. (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006)
Terra typica: Chile (South America)
Chile:
• 09°30′S, 77°26′W; 4,000 m asl: Type Locality: Ancash Region, near Huaraz, mosses on rocks (4 samples). Michalczyk & Kaczmarek (2006a)
Colombia:
• 11°06′20.0′′N, 74°03′56.4′′W; 2,284 m asl: Magdalena Department, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, between La Tagua and Cuchilla de San Lorenzo, sub-Andean forest, lichen on tree (Pine). Lisi et al. (2014)
Record numbers: Chile: 1, Colombia: 1; total: 2.
Remarks: This bona fida species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and could easily be mistaken for other group members (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006a, 2007). See also remarks to E. bigranulatus above. This species currently known only from Chile and Colombia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Echiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Michalczyk & Kaczmarek
- Species
- madonnae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus madonnae Michalczyk, 2006 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Lisi, O., Londono, R. & Quiroga, S. (2014) Tardigrada from a sub-Andean forest in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia) with the description of Itaquascon pilatoi sp. nov. Zootaxa, 3841 (4), 551 - 562. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3841.4.5