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Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters 1908, sensu lato

Description

10. Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters, 1908 sensu lato [T] [m]

Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters. (Heinis 1928)

Echiniscus bigranulatus (Iharos 1969a)

Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters, 1907 (Middleton 2003)

Terra typica: Argentina (South America)

Botswana:

24°25′S, 25°31′E; 1,150 m asl: Kweneng District, Molepolole, lichen on tree. Middleton (2003)

Cameroon:

04°57′N, 09°56′E; 800 m asl: Littoral Region, Kongsamba [Nkongsamba], moss on tree. Iharos (1969a)

Republic of South Africa:

30°34′S, 22°56′E: Undefined locality. Heinis (1928)

Record numbers. Botswana: 1, Cameroon: 1, Republic of South Africa: 1; total: 3.

Remarks. This bona fide species belongs to the Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group but is easily mistaken for other siblings (see: Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006a, 2007). All records prior to 2006 require confirmation, while the three uncertain records from Africa require re-examination and confirmation.

Notes

Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Echiniscidae
Genus
Echiniscus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Echiniscoidea
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Richters
Species
bigranulatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Echiniscus bigranulatus , 2017

References

  • Richters, F. (1908) Moosbewohner. Wissenschaftliche ERgebnisse deR Schwedischen SudpolaR-Expedition (1901 - 1903), Stockholm, 6, 1 - 16.
  • Heinis, F. (1928) Beitrag zur Moosfauna des Krakatau. VeRhandlungen deR NatuRfoRschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, 39, 57 - 65.
  • Iharos, G. (1969 a) Tardigraden aus Mittelwestafrika. Opuscula Zoologica (Budapest), 9, 115 - 120.
  • Middleton, R. C. (2003) Tardigrades in southern Africa. AfRican JouRnal of Ecology, 41, 280 - 282. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 2028.2003.00439. x
  • Michalczyk, L. & Kaczmarek, L. (2006 a) Revision of the Echiniscus bigRanulatus group with a description of a new species Echiniscus madonnae (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) from South America. Zootaxa, 1154, 1 - 26.
  • Michalczyk, L. & Kaczmarek, L. (2007) Echiniscus ganczaReki, a new species of Tardigrada (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae, bigRanulatus group) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa, 1471, 15 - 25.