Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-06-28
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Fractonotus caelatus
(
Marcus, 1928
)
[T]
Hypsibius
oRnatus
f.
caelata
(
Iharos 1969a
)
Terra typica
: Ireland (Europe)
Cameroon:
•
04°11′N
,
09°12′E
;
1,950–2,050 m
asl:
Southwest Region
, Mount
Cameroon
National Park, Mount
Cameroon
, south side, grassy lava field and area of the timberline by trees and lava.
Iharos (1969a)
Record numbers.
Cameroon: 1;
total: 1.
Remarks.
This monotypic genus with a broad Palaearctic/ Australian/
South
American distribution (Pilato
et al
. 1989, 2003a), could suggest a grouping of several species with low morphological divergence. Further research is required to elucidate this hypothesis.