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Mesobiotus snaresensis Horning, Schuster & Grigarick 1978
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146. Mesobiotus snaresensis Horning, Schuster & Grigarick, 1978 [T]
MacRobiotus snaResensis Horning, Schuster & Grigarick 1978 (Binda & Pilato 1995a) Terra typica: Snares Islands (New Zealand)
Tanzania:
• 03°12′S, 37°31′E; 2,200–2,400 m asl: Kilimanjaro Region, near Marangu [gate], outskirts of the entrance of Kilimanjaro National Park, mosses. Binda & Pilato (1995a)
Record numbers. Tanzania: 1; total 1.
Remarks. At present, this species from the harmsworthi group is known only from New Zealand and Tanzania. All species from this group are quite similar and require careful taxonomic analysis of adults and egg morphology (see Kaczmarek et al. 2011 for diagnostic key).
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 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrobiotidae
- Genus
- Mesobiotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Horning, Schuster & Grigarick
- Species
- snaresensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesobiotus snaresensis Horning, 1978 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017
References
- Horning D., Schuster R. & Grigarick A. (1978) Tardigrada of New Zealand. New Zealand JouRnal of Zoology, 5, 185 - 280. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03014223.1978.10428316
- Binda, M. G. & Pilato, G. (1995 a) Some notes on African tardigrades with description of two new species. TRopical Zoology, 8, 367 - 372. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03946975.1995.10539294