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Macrobiotus erminiae Binda & Pilato 1999

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Description

160. Macrobiotus erminiae Binda & Pilato, 1999b [T]

Macrobiotus erminiae sp. n. (Binda & Pilato 1999b)

Terra typica: Chile (South America)

Argentina:

• 54°17′S, 66°42′W; 50 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, outskirts of Cabo San Pablo, peatmoss. Binda & Pilato (1999b)

• 54°47′S, 68°24′W; 650 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, de Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, peat-moss at the foot of the Glacier San Martial. Binda & Pilato (1999b)

Chile:

• 52°46′S, 69°40′W; 50 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, outskirts of Bahia Felipe, moss on soil. Binda & Pilato (1999b)

• 53 ° 38′S, 70 ° 59′W; 50 m asl: Type Locality: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), San Juan (Punta Arenas), mosses on soil. Binda & Pilato (1999b)

• 55°14′S, 66°33′W; 200 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Isla Nueva, mosses on soil. Binda & Pilato (1999b)

Record numbers: Argentina: 2, Chile: 3; total: 5.

Remarks: Currently endemic to the Tierra del Fuego region of South America. This species belongs to the Macrobiotus harmsworthi group, which require careful examination to ensure correct identifications (see Kaczmarek et al. 2011 for a diagnostic key to the group).

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 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FA02EFFDC7A7C4A85B9135737F075

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/241936 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB6D856FF9C7A3C4A12B8175470F34E (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/2305A96C-0A03-4524-93AA-90359893A4DD (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/038FA02EFFDC7A7C4A85B9135737F075 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119598184 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/41991/taxon/038FA02EFFDC7A7C4A85B9135737F075.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Macrobiotidae
Genus
Macrobiotus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Binda & Pilato
Species
erminiae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Macrobiotus erminiae Binda, 1999 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015

References

  • Binda, M. G. & Pilato, G. (1999 b) Macrobiotus erminiae, new species of eutardigrade from southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 13, 151 - 158.
  • Kaczmarek, L., Goldyn, B., Prokop, Z. M. & Michalczyk, L. (2011) New records of Tardigrada from Bulgaria with the description of Macrobiotus binieki sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) and a key to the species of the harmsworthi group. Zootaxa, 2781, 29 - 39.