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Macrobiotus spertii Ramazzotti 1957

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187. Macrobiotus spertii Ramazzotti, 1957 [T]

Macrobiotus spertii sp. nov. (Ramazzotti 1957)

Terra typica: Chile (South America)

Chile:

• 54°30′S, 70°47′W; 800 m asl: Type Locality: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Timaukel, Alberto de Agostini National Park, hill S from Monte Sarmiento, mosses. Ramazzotti (1957)

Record numbers: Brazil: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: Species known only from two localities: Chile and Wyoming (USA) (McInnes 1994a).

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

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References

  • Ramazzotti, G. (1957) Due Nuove specie di Tardigradi extra-europei. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 96, 188 - 191.
  • McInnes, S. J. (1994 a) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. Journal of Natural History, 28, 257 - 352. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131