Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-06-28
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32.
Echiniscus reticulatus
Murray, 1905a
[T]
Echiniscus Reticulatus
J. Murray, 1905 (
Teunissen 1938
)
Terra typica
: Scotland (Europe)
Democratic Republic of Congo:
•
01°18′S
,
29°29′E
;
2,250 m
asl
[
2,100 m
asl]:
North
Kivu Province
, Albert National Park [Virunga National Park], Tshamugussa (Bweza area, SW[sic] (north west) of Visoke and Musule volcanoes), soil.
Teunissen (1938)
Record numbers.
Democratic Republic of Congo: 1;
total: 1.
Remarks.
A species known from a few (Asian and European) Palaearctic localities (
McInnes 1994
); but this single African/ tropical report requires confirmation.
Echiniscus reticulatus
belongs to the
arctomys
group, which is currently considered a species complex nested within the larger (possibly polyphyletic) ‘
arctomys
group’ – sensu
Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983
). This African record requires an integrated morphological/ molecular verification.