Tardigrades from Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina, South America) with descriptions of two new Macrobiotidae species
Author
Roszkowska, Milena
Author
Stec, Daniel
Author
Ciobanu, Daniel Adrian
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
text
Zootaxa
2016
4105
3
243
260
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4105.3.2
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1175-5326
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Macrobiotus patagonicus
Maucci, 1988
Localities and number of specimens.
IV (1 and
1 egg
), V (56, 5 exuviae and
18 eggs
), XXI (2 and
1 egg
), XXXI (74, 6 exuviae and
17 eggs
)
Remarks.
Our specimens correspond perfectly to the original description. This species has only been reported from the Patagonian regions of
Argentina
(
locus typicus
) and
Chile
(
Maucci 1988
; Kaczmarek
et al.
2015).