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Isohypsibius myrops

Description

139. Isohypsibius myrops (du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944) [F]

H. (I.) myrops sp. n. (du Bois-Reymond Marcus 1944)

Terra typica: Brazil (South America)

Brazil:

• 23°34′S, 46°44′W; 750 m asl: Type Locality: São Paulo State, São Paulo, in aquarium of Department of Zoology, Faculty of Philosofia, between aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

• 23°39′S, 46°42′W; 750 m asl: Type Locality: São Paulo State, Santo Amaro, on the edge of São Paulo, in the stream, between aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

• 25°26′S, 49°16′W; 900 m asl: Type Locality: Paraná State, Curitiba, between aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

Record numbers: Brazil: 3; total: 3.

Remarks: Species known only from Brazil and from doubtful records in Japanese sewage treatment plants (Utsugi 2001).

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Tardigrada
Order
Parachela
Family
Hypsibiidae
Genus
Isohypsibius
Species
myrops
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Bois-Reymond Marcus, E. du. (1944) Sobre tardigrados brasileiros. Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo, 1 (13), 1 - 19.
  • Utsugi, K. (2001) Tardigrades living in the sewage treatment plants. Zoological Science, 18 (Supplement), 46.