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Oreella mollis Murray 1910

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70. Oreella mollis Murray, 1910 [T]

Oreella minor Ramazzotti, 1964 (Binda & Kristensen 1986)

Oreella minor spec. nov. (Ramazzotti 1964b)

Terra typica: Australia (Australia)

Argentina:

• 42°37′S, 71°53′W; 550 m asl: Chubut Province, Puerto El Sagrario near Menédez Lake, temperate rainforest, moss on branches of Nothofagus and Myrtacea. Binda & Kristensen (1986)

Chile:

• 39°23′S, 71°58′W; 1,400 m asl: Region IX Araucania (Región de la Araucanía), Temuco District, Villarrica National Park near Pucón, upper level of Nothofagus forest on the slopes of the Villarica Volcano, mosses and lichens on Nothofagus trunk. Dastych et al. (1998)

• 42°37′S, 73°49′W; 50–100 m asl: Region X Los Lagos (Región de Los Lagos), Chiloé Island, mosses. Ramazzotti (1964b)

Record numbers: Argentina: 1, Chile: 2; total: 3.

Remarks: Distribution of this species is limited to the southern hemisphere. There has been much confusion regarding the genus Oreella (e.g. incorrect locus typicus, morphological and taxonomical confusion, data of description, lost material, etc.). For more details see Dastych et al. (1998).

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

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FA02EFF817A214A85B9E55076F745

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/038FA02EFF817A214A85B9E55076F745 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119598312 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/41991/taxon/038FA02EFF817A214A85B9E55076F745.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Oreellidae
Genus
Oreella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Echiniscoidea
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Murray
Species
mollis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Oreella mollis Murray, 1910 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015

References

  • Murray, J. (1910) Tardigrada. British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909. Reports on the Scientific Investigations, 1 (Biology, Part V), 83 - 187.
  • Binda, M. G. & Kristensen, R. M. (1986) Notes on the genus Oreella (Oreellidae) and the systematic position of Carphania fluviatilis Binda, 1978. (Carphaniidae fam. nov., Heterotardigrada). Animalia, 13, 9 - 20.
  • Ramazzotti, G. (1964 b) Tardigradi del Chile, III, con descrizione delle nuove specie Orella minor e Pseudechiniscus lateromamillatus. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 103, 347 - 355.
  • Dastych, H., McInnes, S. & Claxton, S. K. (1998) Oreella mollis Murray, 1910 (Tardigrada): a redescription and revision of Oreella. Mitteilungen Hamburgisches Zoologisches Museum und Institut, 95, 89 - 113.