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Mesobiotus nuragicus Pilato & Sperlinga 1975
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Description
143. Mesobiotus nuragicus Pilato & Sperlinga, 1975 [T]
Terra typica: Italy (Europe)
Algeria:
• 36°38′N, 05°45′E; 1,200 m asl: Jijel Province, M’Sid-Ech-Cheta (Texenna Pass). Binda & Pilato (1987)
Republic of South Africa:
• 26°57′S, 32°51′E; 0 m asl: KwaZulu-Natal Province, Kosi, topsoil. Binda (1984)
Record numbers. Algeria: 1, Republic of South Africa: 1; total: 2.
Remarks. This species from the harmsworthi group, which requires careful taxonomic analysis including egg morphology (Kaczmarek et al. 2011), has a rather disjunct distribution (McInnes 1994). The eight eggs reported from South Africa (Binda 1984), are subtly different from the type material and therefore needs confirmation.
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 page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Macrobiotidae
- Genus
- Mesobiotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Parachela
- Phylum
- Tardigrada
- Scientific name authorship
- Pilato & Sperlinga
- Species
- nuragicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesobiotus nuragicus Pilato, 1975 sec. Kaczmarek, 2017
References
- Pilato, G. & Sperlinga, G. (1975) Tardigradi muscicoli di Sardegna. Animalia, 2, 79 - 90.
- McInnes, S. J. (1994) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. JouRnal of NatuRal HistoRy, 28, 257 - 352. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131