Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa Author Kaczmarek, Łukasz text Zootaxa 2017 2017-06-28 4284 1 1 74 journal article 31842 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1 ac866645-a8b9-45a8-8c7d-d3aff74ede70 1175-5326 1010400 1CD17B31-E3D0-4BFB-8B69-144D97949038 117. Pseudobiotus sp. [F] Hypsibius ( Isohypsibius ) Augusti J. Murray ( Marcus 1935 ) Hypsibius augusti Murray (Löfflera 1968) Hypsibius ( Isohypsibius ) augusti (Murray, 1907) ( Haspeslagh 1982 ) Pseudobiotus augusti ( Ramløv & Kristensen 1985 ) Isohypsibius augusti (Murray, 1907) ( De Smet & Bafort 1990 ) Terra typica : Sweden (Europe) Kenya: • 00°03'N , 35°32'E ; 3,000 m asl [ 2,750 m asl]: Uasin Gishu County , Elgeyo Escarpment, Timboroa, Station 10, source below the Narasha Lake. Marcus (1935) • 00°03′S , 37°34′E ; 2,140 m asl: Meru County , Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya , Marimba River, rushes. De Smet & Bafort (1990) • 00°09′S , 37°18′E ; 4,350 m asl: Meru County , Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya , Hausberg Creek. Löfflera (1968) • 00°09′S , 37°19′E ; 4,400 m asl: Meru County , Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya , Lower Simba Tarn. Löfflera (1968) • 00°09′S , 37°21′E ; 4,300 m asl : Meru County , Mount Kenya National Park , Mount Kenya , West Hall Tarn. Löffler (1968) • 00°10′S , 37°17′E ; 4,150 m asl: Nyeri County , Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya , Teleki River, moss. De Smet & Bafort (1990) • 00°10′S , 37°18′E ; 4,270 m asl: Nyeri County , Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya , Teleki Tarn, small effluent and shallow pond, silt, sediments and sandy gravel. Haspeslagh (1982) • 00°10′S , 37°19′E ; 4,300 m asl: Meru County , Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya , Upper Thompson Tarn. Löfflera (1968) • 00°11′S , 37°21′E ; 3,950 m asl: Meru County , Mount Kenya National Park, Mount Kenya , Lower Carr Lake. Löfflera (1968) Morocco: • 31°35′N , 05°36′W ; 1,650 m asl : Souss-Massa-Drâa Region , Todra [ Todgha ] Gorge , moss from running water (source at the hotel). Ramløv & Kristensen (1985) • 30°41′N , 08°09′W ; 750 m asl : Souss-Massa-Drâa Region , Sous river at Aoulouz , sludge and algae in river. Ramløv & Kristensen (1985) Record numbers. Kenya : 9, Morocco : 2; total: 11. Remarks. Reports for Isohypsibius augusti are included here as there has been major taxonomic confusion between the original description as Macrobiotus augusti (Murray 1907) , which was transferred to Isohypsibius by Thulin (1928) and a re-description from non-type material by Marcus (1936) , leaving all augusti records split between Pseudobiotus and Thulinius (see: Bertolani et al. 1999 , Marley et al. 2008). While Murray’s (1907e) augusti is now Thulinius , the Kenyan references are associated with megalonyx ( Marcus 1935 ) (now Pseudobiotus ), or have either no description or no figures ( Haspeslagh 1982 , De Smet & Bafort 1990 ). The Moroccan report only indicated a Pseudobiotus sp. ( Ramløv & Kristensen 1985 ). Re-examination of all the African samples is required to confirm which taxa are present.