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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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1
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74.
Milnesium granulatum
Ramazzotti, 1962a
[T]
Milnesium tardigradum
Doy., 1840
granulatum
var. nov
.
(
Ramazzotti 1962a
)
Terra typica
:
Chile
(South
America
)
Chile
:
•
30°25′S
–
37°45′S
[
30
°
40′S
,
71
°
41′W
];
600–620 m
asl
:
Type
Locality
: Region IV Coquimbo (Región de Coquimbo), Fray Jorge,
ca.
420 km
on north of Santiago de
Chile
, temperate rainforest, surrounded by steppe, mosses and lichens on shrubs.
Ramazzotti (1962a)
Record numbers:
Chile
: 1,
total: 1.
Remarks:
Species reported from
Chile
(
locus typicus
)
Colombia
,
Italy
,
Romania
and
USA
(
Ciobanu
et al.
2014
;
Bartels
et al.
2014
), such a disjunct distribution suggests a species complex or species crypsis (see Michalczyk
et al.
2012a,b for more details).