Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis Nickel, Miller & Marley 2001
- 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 ollantaytamboensis
description
Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis nov. sp. (Nickel et al. 2001) Terra typica: Peru (South America) Peru: • 13 ° 08 ′ 24 ′′ S, 72 ° 10 ′ 12 ′′ W; 2,300 m asl [13 ° 15 ′ S, 72 ° 16 ′ W; 2,850 m asl]: Type Locality: Cusco Region, Ollantaytambo, lichen on stonewall. Nickel et al. (2001) • 13 ° 25 ′ S, 71 ° 51 ′ W, 3,000 m asl: Cusco Region, Pisac near Cusco, mixed mosses and lichens on rock. Kaczmarek et al. (2014 b) • 15 ° 50 ′ S, 70 ° 01 ′ W; 2,600 m asl [3,850 m asl]: Puno Region, Puno, lichen. Michalczyk & Kaczmarek (2006 a) Record numbers: Peru: 3; total: 3.
discussion
Remarks: The species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and can easily be mistaken for other members of the group (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006 a, 2007). It is currently endemic to Peru. See also remarks to E. bigranulatus above.