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Platicrista ramsayi Marley 2006
Description
110. Platicrista ramsayi Marley, 2006 [T]
Platicrista ramsayi sp. nov. (Marley 2006)
Terra typica: Ecuador (South America)
Ecuador:
• 00°49′N, 78°00′W; 3,340 m asl: Type Locality: Carchi Province, slope of Volcán Chiles, páramo, mosses on soil. Marley (2006)
Record numbers: Ecuador: 1; total: 1.
Remarks: This species currently endemic to Ecuador; however, it is possible that reports of the Argentine example reported as P. angustata might be ascribed to P. ramsayi after further analysis.
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 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hypsibiidae
- Genus
- Platicrista
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Marley
- Species
- ramsayi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platicrista ramsayi Marley, 2006 sec. Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Mcinnes, 2015
References
- Marley, N. J. (2006) A new species of Tardigrada, Platicrista ramsayi sp. nov. from the paramo of Volcan Chiles, Ecuador. Zootaxa, 1166, 35 - 48.