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Minibiotus hufelandioides

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154. Minibiotus hufelandioides (Murray, 1910) [T]

Macrobiotus hufelandioides Murray (?), Macrobiotus hufelandioides Murray (Murray 1913) Macrobiotus hufelandioides Murray, 1910 (Van Rompu et al. 1991a)

Terra typica: Australia

Kenya:

• 00°01′S, 37°54′E: Undefined locality, British East Africa [Kenya], moss. Murray (1913)

Republic of South Africa:

• 23°50′S, 29°59′E; 1,450 m asl: North Transvaal [Limpopo Province], Woodbush [Woodbush Forest Reserve]. Murray (1913)

Tanzania:

• 03°17′S, 37°31′E; ca. 1,500 m asl: Kilimanjaro Region, Kilimanjaro National Park, Marangu gate, rain forest, below tree line, river, pH 5.5, water temperature 12°C, benthos sample. Van Rompu et al. (1991a)

Uganda:

• 01°22′N, 32°17′E: Undefined locality, moss. Murray (1913)

Record numbers. Kenya: 1, Republic of South Africa: 1, Tanzania: 1, Uganda: 1; total: 4.

Remarks. Known from several disjunct localities (McInnes 1994) suggesting a species complex. Murray (1913) described several differences between his African samples and those from the type locale (Australia) concluding that the African examples were, “possibly a distinct species”. These comments and more recently described African conspecifics suggests the presence of this taxon in Africa needs confirmation.

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 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED740D32237E71FF6BFEB669E1FC2E

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1010400 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03ED740D32237E71FF6BFEB669E1FC2E (URL)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/31842/taxon/03ED740D32237E71FF6BFEB669E1FC2E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Macrobiotidae
Genus
Minibiotus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Murray
Species
hufelandioides
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Minibiotus hufelandioides (Murray, 1910) sec. Kaczmarek, 2017

References

  • Murray, J. (1910) Tardigrada. British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909. RepoRts on the Scientific Investigations, 1 (Biology, Part V), 83 - 187.
  • Murray, J. (1913) African Tardigrada. JouRnal of the Royal MicRoscopical Society, 2, 136 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2818.1913. tb 01014. x
  • Van Rompu, E. A., De Smet, W. H. & Bafort, J. M. (1991 a) Some freshwater tardigrades from the Kilimanjaro. Naturwetenschappelijk Tijdschrift, 73, 55 - 62.
  • McInnes, S. J. (1994) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. JouRnal of NatuRal HistoRy, 28, 257 - 352. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131