Macrobiotus islandicus Richters 1904
- Dataset
- Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Parachela
- family
- Macrobiotidae
- genus
- Macrobiotus
- species
- Macrobiotus islandicus
discussion
Remarks: This nominal species of the M. islandicus group has a Holarctic distribution (McInnes 1994 a). Importantly, a similar subspecies, Macrobiotus islandicus nicaraguensis, is known from Central America (Kaczmarek et al. 2014 a), thus it is very likely that this single Colombian record belongs to M. i. nicaraguensis or to another species within the islandicus group.
Name
- Homonyms
- Macrobiotus islandicus Richters 1904