Echiniscus madonnae Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006
- Dataset
- Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Echiniscoidea
- family
- Echiniscidae
- genus
- Echiniscus
- species
- Echiniscus madonnae
description
Echiniscus madonnae sp. nov. (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006) Terra typica: Chile (South America) Chile: • 09 ° 30 ′ S, 77 ° 26 ′ W; 4,000 m asl: Type Locality: Ancash Region, near Huaraz, mosses on rocks (4 samples). Michalczyk & Kaczmarek (2006 a) Colombia: • 11 ° 06 ′ 20.0 ′′ N, 74 ° 03 ′ 56.4 ′′ W; 2,284 m asl: Magdalena Department, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, between La Tagua and Cuchilla de San Lorenzo, sub-Andean forest, lichen on tree (Pine). Lisi et al. (2014) Record numbers: Chile: 1, Colombia: 1; total: 2.
discussion
Remarks: This bona fida species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and could easily be mistaken for other group members (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006 a, 2007). See also remarks to E. bigranulatus above. This species currently known only from Chile and Colombia.