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Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae subsp. laterospinosa Iharos 1963

Description

62. Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae laterospinosa Iharos, 1963 [T]

Pseudechiniscus novaezeelandiae f. laterospinosa f. n. (Iharos, 1963) Terra typica: Argentina (South America)

Argentina:

• 40°50′S, 71°38′W; 900 m asl: Neuquén Province, Peninsula de Quetrihue, semi-wet, mosses on rocks on the sunny slope. Claps & Rossi (1981)

• 41°59′S, 71°31′W; 350–400 m asl: Type Locality: Rio Negro Province, El Bolsón, foot of Piltriquitron Mt., mosses on rocks in shaded Libocedrus chilensis -Lomatia obliqua forest. Iharos (1963)

Record numbers: Argentina: 2; total: 2.

Remarks: The sub-species has a limited Neotropic distribution (McInnes 1994a), but its taxonomic status should be confirmed via modern taxonomy.

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

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References

  • Iharos, G. (1963) The zoological results of Gy. Topal's collections in South Argentina, 3. Tardigrada. Annales Historico Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 55, 293 - 299.
  • Claps, M. C. & Rossi, G. C. (1981) Contribucion al conocimiento de los tardigrados de Argentina. II. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 40 (1 - 4), 107 - 114.
  • 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