Hypsibius allisoni Horning, Schuster & Grigarick 1978
- Dataset
- Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Tardigrada
- class
- Heterotardigrada
- order
- Parachela
- family
- Hypsibiidae
- genus
- Hypsibius
- species
- Hypsibius allisoni
discussion
Remarks: Belonging to the convergens - species complex (Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009 a), which has an apparent global distribution (McInnes 1994 a), this species complex requires careful examination as members of this group can only be determined via subtle taxonomic details of claws morphology and other morphometric characters (e. g. Miller et al. 2005, Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009 a). Hypsibius allisoni has disjunct Gondwanan distribution, known from New Zealand, Antarctica and South America (McInnes 1994 a).