Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Author
Michalczyk, Łukasz
Author
Mcinnes, Sandra J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3923
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1
107
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1
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Echiniscus loxophthalmus
Richters, 1911c
[T]
E. loxophthalmus
Richt. (
Iharos 1969
)
Terra typica
:
Norway
(Europe)
Chile
:
•
18°11′S
,
69°13′W
;
4,800 m
asl
[
4,550 m
asl]: Region XV Arica y Parinacota, Laguna La Cotacotani, leaf litter.
Iharos (1969)
Record numbers:
Chile
: 1;
total: 1.
Remarks:
This single Chilean record for
E. loxophthalmus
is the only report outside the
locus typicus
of
Norway
, and therefore the presence of this species in South
America
is dubious (
Ramazzotti
& Maucci 1983 records this species as
spec. inquir.
).