Acutuncus antarcticus
Description
114. Acutuncus antarcticus (Richters, 1904b) sensu lato [T]
Macrobiotus arcticus Murray (Heinis 1914)
Terra typica: Antarctica (Antarctica)
Argentina:
• 39°12′S, 70°55′W; 900 m asl: Neuquén Province, Aluminé, Rucachoroi Lake, moss on soil. Rossi et al. (2009)
• Undefined location in Tierra del Fuego. Claps et al. (2008)
Colombia:
• 07°09′N, 75°23′W; 1,400 m asl: Antioquia Department, Cafetal La Camelia, hepatic (Frullania evolita Steph.), lichens and leaves. Heinis (1914)
Record numbers: Argentina: 1, Colombia: 1; total: 2.
Remarks: The Argentine examples were described as exhibiting the characters described in Dastych (1991) but there is no information on the eggs, which would confirm the identification. Heinis (1914) describes “eggs with blunt thorns like projections surrounded by a hyaline skin”, similar to that describes for Acutuncus antarcticus. These South American records require confirmation.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hypsibiidae
- Genus
- Acutuncus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Richters
- Species
- antarcticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acutuncus antarcticus (Richters, 1904) sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Richters, F. (1904 b) Vorlaufiger Bericht uber die antarktische Moosfauna. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 236 - 239.
- Heinis, F. (1914) Die Moosfauna Columbiens. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel, 5, 713 - 724.
- Rossi, G., Claps, M. & Ardohain, D. (2009) Tardigrades from northwestern Patagonia (Neuquen Province, Argentina) with the description of three new species. Zootaxa, 2095, 21 - 36.
- Claps, M. C., Rossi, G. C. & Ardohain, D. M. (2008) Tardigrada. In: Claps, L. E., Debandi, G. & Roig-Junent, S. (Dirs.), Biodiversidad de Artropodos Argentinos. Vol. 2. Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, Mendoza, pp. 63 - 77.
- Dastych, H. (1991) Redescription of Hypsibius antarcticus (Richters, 1904), with some notes on Hypsibius arcticus (Murray, 1907) (Tardigrada). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 88, 141 - 159.