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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39.
Echiniscus phocae
du
Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944
[T]
E.
(
E
)
phocae
sp. n.
(du
Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944
)
Terra typica
:
Brazil
(South
America
)
Brazil
:
•
22°43′S
,
45°36′W
;
1,900 m
asl
[
1,850 m
asl]:
Type
Locality
: São Paulo State, Campos do Jordão, mosses or aquatic plants.
du
Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)
Record numbers:
Brazil
: 1;
total: 1.
Remarks:
This
arctomys
group species (see also remarks
E. arctomys
above) is known only from South
America
(
type
locality), a few European localities (
McInnes 1994a
) and from
USA
(
Ramazzotti 1956
); suggesting a probable species complex.