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Diphascon ongulense Morikawa 1962

Description

85. Diphascon ongulense (Morikawa, 1962) [T]

D. (D.) ongulense (Morikawa, 1962) (Rossi & Claps 1989)

Terra typica: East Ongul I. (Antarctica)

Argentina:

• 54°51′S, 68°29′W; 0 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Tierra del Fuego National Park, Bahia Ensenada, mosses and lichens on rocks. Rossi & Claps (1989)

Record numbers: Argentina: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: Originally described from Antarctica this species has a highly disjunct distribution including Arctic Canada, Russia and Europe (McInnes 1994a, Van Rompu et al. 2000).

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hypsibiidae
Genus
Diphascon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Morikawa
Species
ongulense
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Diphascon ongulense Morikawa, 1962 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015

References

  • Morikawa, K. (1962) Notes on some Tardigrada from Antarctic Region. Biological Results Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 17, 3 - 7.
  • Rossi, G. C. & Claps, M. C. (1989) Contribucion al conocimiento de los Tardigrados de la Argentina V. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 47, 133 - 142.
  • 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
  • Van Rompu, E., De Smet, W. & Beyens, L. (2000) Freshwater Tardigrada from Victoria Island, arctic Canada. Biologisch Jaarboek, 67 (1), 124 - 137.