Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis Nickel, Miller & Marley 2001
Description
36. Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis Nickel, Miller & Marley, 2001 [T]
Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis nov. sp. (Nickel et al. 2001)
Terra typica: Peru (South America)
Peru:
• 13°08′24′′S, 72°10′12′′W; 2,300 m asl [13 ° 15′S, 72 ° 16′W; 2,850 m asl]: Type Locality: Cusco Region, Ollantaytambo, lichen on stonewall. Nickel et al. (2001)
• 13°25′S, 71°51′W, 3,000 m asl: Cusco Region, Pisac near Cusco, mixed mosses and lichens on rock. Kaczmarek et al. (2014b)
• 15°50′S, 70°01′W; 2,600 m asl [3,850 m asl]: Puno Region, Puno, lichen. Michalczyk & Kaczmarek (2006a)
Record numbers: Peru: 3; total: 3.
Remarks: The species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and can easily be mistaken for other members of the group (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006a, 2007). It is currently endemic to Peru. See also remarks to E. bigranulatus above.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echiniscidae
- Genus
- Echiniscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Nickel, Miller & Marley
- Species
- ollantaytamboensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis Nickel, 2001 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Nickel, K., Miller, W. R. & Marley, N. (2001) Tardigrades of South America: Machu Picchu and Ollantayambo, Peru. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 240, 505 - 509. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1078 / 0044 - 5231 - 00060
- Kaczmarek, L., Cytan, J., Zawierucha, K., Diduszko, D. & Michalczyk, L. (2014 b) Tardigrades from Peru (South America), with descriptions of three new species of Parachela. Zootaxa, 3790 (2), 357 - 379. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3790.2.5