Macrobiotus kristenseni Guidetti, Peluffo
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168. Macrobiotus kristenseni Guidetti, Peluffo, Rocha, Cesari & Moly de Peluffo, 2013 [T] [m]
Macrobiotus sp. (Moly de Peluffo et al. 2006, Peluffo et al. 2007)
Macrobiotus kristenseni sp. nov. (Guidetti et al. 2013)
Terra typica: Argentina (South America)
Argentina:
• 35°40′S, 63°44′W; 143 m asl: La Pampa Province, General Pico (125 km northeast of Santa Rosa), epiphytic lichens. Moly de Peluffo et al. (2006), Guidetti et al. (2013)
• 36°39′S, 64°17′W; 177 m asl: Type Locality: La Pampa Province, Santa Rosa [Santa Rosa de Toay], epiphytic lichens. Peluffo et al. (2007), Guidetti et al. (2013)
• 36°55′S, 64°16′W; 150 m asl: La Pampa Province, Natural Reserve Parque Luro (35 km south of Santa Rosa), caldén forest, epiphytic lichens. Guidetti et al. (2013)
Record numbers: Argentina: 3; total: 3.
Remarks: Currently endemic to Argentina, the species belongs to the persimilis subgroup (with a smooth egg shell) within the Macrobiotus hufelandi group. The hufelandi group requires careful taxonomic analysis, including egg morphology, to differentiate the individual species (see Bertolani & Rebecchi 1993; and e.g. Fontoura et al. 2008, Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2004, 2009b, Pilato et al. 2003b, Bartels et al. 2009, Guidetti et al. 2013 for new species within this group).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Guidetti, Peluffo
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Order
- Parachela
- Family
- Macrobiotidae
- Genus
- Macrobiotus
- Species
- kristenseni
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Guidetti R., Peluffo, J. R., Rocha, A. M., Cesari, M. & Moly de Peluffo, M. C. (2013) The morphological and molecular analyses of a new South American urban tardigrade offer new insights on the biological meaning of the Macrobiotus hufelandi group of species (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae). Journal of Natural History, 47 (37 - 38), 2409 - 2426. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2013.800610
- Peluffo, J. R., Rocha, A. M. & Moly de Peluffo, M. C. (2007) Species diversity and morphometrics of tardigrades in a mediumsized city in the Neotropical Region: Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina). Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 30, 43 - 51.
- Bertolani, R. & Rebecchi, L. (1993) A revision of the Macrobiotus hufelandi group (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae), with some observations on the taxonomic characters of eutardigrades. Zoologica Scripta, 22, 127 - 152. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1993. tb 00347. x
- Fontoura, P., Pilato, G. & Lisi, O. (2008) New records of eutardigrades (Tardigrada) from Faial and Pico Islands, the Azores, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa, 1778, 37 - 47.
- Pilato, G., Kaczmarek, L., Michalczyk, L. & Lisi, O. (2003 b) Macrobiotus polonicus, a new species of Tardigrada from Poland (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae, ' hufelandi group'). Zootaxa, 258, 1 - 8.
- Bartels, P., Pilato, G., Lisi, O. & Nelson, D. R. (2009) Macrobiotus (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee / North Carolina, USA (North America): two new species and six new records. Zootaxa, 2022, 45 - 57.