Pilatobius brevipes (Marcus) 1936, sensu lato
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111. Pilatobius brevipes (Marcus, 1936) sensu lato [T]
H. (C.) breuipes Marcus, 1936 (Claps & Rossi 1981)
Hypsibius brevipes Marcus, 1936 (Iharos, 1982)
Diphascon (Diphascon) brevipes (Marcus, 1930) (Gritano-Zavala 1995) D. (D.) brevipes (Gritano-Zavala 1996)
Terra typica: Hungary (Europe)
Argentina:
• 41°08′S, 71°20′W; 950 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Cerro Runge, very wet, mosses from forest. Claps & Rossi (1981)
• 54°39′S, 68°30′W; 800 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, National Park Ushuaia [Tierra del Fuego National Park], soil. Iharos (1982)
Bolivia:
• 16°11'S, 68°35'W; 3,680–4,000 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Huarina, moorland floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)
• 16°13'S, 68°13'W; 4,550–4,700 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Tuni, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)
• 16°18'S, 68°17'W; 4,300–4,400 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Wila Kunka, high Andean floor, cushion moss. Gritano-Zavala (1995, 1996)
Record numbers: Argentina: 2, Bolivia: 3; total: 5.
Remarks: A largely Palaearctic species also reported from single localities in North and South America (McInnes 1994a), which could suggest a species complex.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- (Marcus)
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Order
- Echiniscoidea
- Family
- Hypsibiidae
- Genus
- Pilatobius
- Species
- brevipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pilatobius brevipes , 2015
References
- Marcus, E. (1936) Tardigrada. Das Tierreich, 66, 1 - 340.
- 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.
- Iharos, G. (1982) Tardigradologische Notizen, I. Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica, 1, 85 - 90.
- Garitano-Zavala, A. B. (1995) Primer reporte de las especies de tardigrados muscicolas (Phylum Tardigrada) presentes en la vertiente occidental de Cordillera Real de los Andes (La Paz - Bolivia), Ecologia en Bolivia, 24, 1 - 39.
- Garitano-Zavala, B. A. (1996) Efecto de la humedad microambiental y la altura, sobre la distribucion de la Tardigradifauna Muscicola (Phylum Tardigrada) en la vertiente occidental de la Cordillera Real de los Andes (La Paz, Bolivia). Ecologia en Bolivia, 26, 1 - 48.
- 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