Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Author
Michalczyk, Łukasz
Author
Mcinnes, Sandra J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1
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156.
Macrobiotus andinus
Maucci, 1988
[T]
Macrobiotus andinus
sp. nov.
(
Maucci 1988
)
Terra typica
:
Chile
and
Argentina
(South
America
)
Argentina
:
•
50°06′S
,
73°18′W
;
200 m
asl:
Type
Locality
: Santa Cruz Province, Los Glaciares National Park, shores of
Argentino
Lake, near the Onelli glacier,
Nothofagus
forests, in the shade, mosses and lichens on trees and rocks.
Maucci (1988)
Chile
:
•
51°34′S
,
72°36′W
;
200 m
asl
: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la
Antártica
Chilena), Ultima Esperanza, near Cueva del Milodón, mosses on rocks, in sunlight.
Maucci (1988)
•
51°44′S
,
72°30′W
; 0 m asl
: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la
Antártica
Chilena), Puerto Natales, mosses on trees and rocks.
Maucci (1988)
•
53
°
38′S
,
70
°
59′W
;
50 m
asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la
Antártica
Chilena), San Juan (Punta Arenas), mosses on soil.
Binda & Pilato (1999b)
•
55°14′S
,
66°33′W
;
200 m
asl
: Tierra del Fuego Province,
Isla
Nueva, mosses on soil.
Binda & Pilato (1999b)
Record numbers:
Argentina
: 1;
Chile
: 4;
total: 5.
Remarks:
Currently endemic to South
America
.