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Parhexapodibius castrii

Description

151. Parhexapodibius castrii (Ramazzotti, 1964a) [T]

Hexapodibius castrii (Maucci 1988)

Hypsibius (Calohypsibius) castrii spec. nov. (Ramazzotti 1964a) Terra typica: Chile (South America)

Argentina:

• 41°51′S, 71°25′W; 650 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Los Repollos stream, mosses from water. Rossi & Claps (1991)

Chile

• 22°28′S, 68°08′W; 4,150 m asl: Type Locality: Region II Antofagasta, Cerro Pajonal, near Bolivian border, at the entrance of a burrow of rodent (Lagidium viscacia) mosses on soil. Ramazzotti (1964a)

• 50°59′S, 73°00′W; 1,200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Torres del Paine National Park, mosses on trees and rocks, nearly all in half sunlight. Maucci (1988)

• 51°34′S, 72°36′W; 200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Ultima Esperanza, near Cueva del Milodón, mosses on rocks, in sunlight. Maucci (1988)

Record numbers: Argentina: 1, Chile: 3; total: 4.

Remarks: This apparently Neotropical species (McInnes 1994a, Kaczmarek et al. 2014a) has a few doubtful USA records (Meyer 1967).

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 pages 60-61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936

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Biodiversity

References

  • Ramazzotti, G. (1964 a) Tardigradi del Cile II, con descrizione di due nuove specie e note sulla scultura degli Echiniscidae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 103, 89 - 100.
  • Maucci, W. (1988) Tardigrada from Patagonia (Southern South America) with description of three new species. Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 16, 5 - 13.
  • Rossi, G. C. & Claps, M. C. (1991) Tardigrados dulceacuicolas de la Argentina. Fauna de aqua dulce de la Republica Argentina, 19, 1 - 70.
  • 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
  • Kaczmarek, L., Michalczyk, L. & McInnes, S. J. (2014 a) Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part I: Central America. Zootaxa, 3763 (1), 1 - 62. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3763.1.1
  • Meyer, H. E. (1967) Tardigrades from San Diego Country, California. Edited and published by author, 10 pp.