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Echiniscus ranzii Ramazzotti 1964
Description
42. Echiniscus ranzii Ramazzotti, 1964a [T]
Echiniscus (Echiniscus) ranzii spec nov. (Ramazzotti 1964a) Terra typica: Chile (South America)
Chile:
• 22°30′S, 67°54′W; 4,600 m asl: Type Locality: Region II Antofagasta, Cerro Pajonal, near Bolivian border, lichen on rocks. Ramazzotti (1964a)
Record numbers: Chile: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: The species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and could easily be mistaken for other members of the group (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006a, 2007). It is currently endemic to Chile. See also remarks to E. bigranulatus above.
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 20, 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
- Ramazzotti
- Species
- ranzii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus ranzii Ramazzotti, 1964 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Ramazzotti, G. (1964 a) Tardigradi del Cile II, con descrizione di due nuove specie e note sulla scultura degli Echiniscidae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 103, 89 - 100.