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Diphascon alpinum Murray 1906, sensu lato

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48. Diphascon alpinum Murray, 1906a sensu lato [T]

Diphascon alpinum Murray (Murray 1913)

Diphascon alpinum J. Murray 1906 (Rahm 1936)

Diphascon alpinum (Ramløv & Kristensen 1985)

Terra typica: Scotland (Europe)

Israel and Palestinian National Authority:

• 31°48′N, 35°10′E; 600 m asl: Judean Mountains, W of Jerusalem, Motza, extreme arid or semi-arid climate. Rahm (1936) • 31°46′N, 35°10′E; 650 m asl: Judean Mountains, Jerusalem, Ein Kerem, extreme arid or semi-arid climate. Rahm (1936) • 31°43′N, 35°17′E; 600 m asl: Judean Mountains, al-Ubeidiya, Monastery Deir Dosi (Monastery of St. Theodosius), extreme arid or semi-arid climate. Rahm (1936)

• 31°42′N, 35°12′E; 800 m asl: Judean Mountains, Bethlehem, extreme arid or semi-arid climate. Rahm (1936) Morocco:

• 32°25′N, 05°13′W; 1,750 m asl: Meknès-Tafilalet Region, S of Azrou, cedar forest, forest glade, moss on limestone boulders in the forest glade Ramløv & Kristensen (1985)

Uganda:

• 01°22′N, 32°17′E: Undefined locality. Murray (1913)

Record numbers. Israel and Palestinian National Authority: 4, Morocco: 1, Uganda: 1; total: 6.

Remarks. The alpinum group is a complex of very similar, difficult to discriminate, species (Pilato & Binda 1998). The nominal species is considered rare and probably Palaearctic (Pilato & Binda 1998). All African reports are questionable and require further examination.

Notes

Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED740D32027E53FF6BFA0D6FDAFF6E

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1010400 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD40C7532177E45FFFCFFEB6D1DFF96 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03ED740D32027E53FF6BFA0D6FDAFF6E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/135435708 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/31842/taxon/03ED740D32027E53FF6BFA0D6FDAFF6E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Hypsibiidae
Genus
Diphascon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Murray
Species
alpinum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Diphascon alpinum , 2017

References

  • Murray, J. (1906 a) Scottish Alpine Tardigrada. The Annals of Scottish NatuRal HistoRy, 57, 25 - 30.
  • Murray, J. (1913) African Tardigrada. JouRnal of the Royal MicRoscopical Society, 2, 136 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2818.1913. tb 01014. x
  • Rahm, G. (1936) Tardigraden aus Palastina. ZoologischeR AnzeigeR, 115, 65 - 76.
  • Ramlov, H. & Kristensen, R. M. (1985) Bjornedyr, Tardigrada. Marokko - 1985. Dansk NatuRhistoRisk FoRenings Rejse til MaRokko, 8 - 22 ApRil 1985, pp. 27 - 32.
  • Pilato, G. & Binda, M. G. (1998) A comparison of Diphascon (D.) alpinum Murray, 1906, D. (D.) chilenense Plate, 1889 and D. (D.) pingue Marcus, 1936 (Tardigrada), and description of a new species. ZoologischeR AnzeigeR, 236, 181 - 185.