Macrobiotus psephus

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 75-76

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2305A96C-0A03-4524-93AA-90359893A4DD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688180

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FA02E-FFD6-7A77-4A85-BF8E5040F100

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scientific name

Macrobiotus psephus
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182. Macrobiotus psephus du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944 [T]

M. psephus sp. n. (du Bois-Reymond Marcus 1944)

M. psephus du Bois Reymond ( Claps & Rossi 1997)

Terra typica: Brazil (South America)

Brazil:

• 22°44′S, 45°35′W; 1,650 m asl: Type Locality: São Paulo State, Campos do Jordão, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois- Reymond Marcus (1944)

Uruguay:

• 31°03′S, 57°38′W; 50 m asl: Salto Department, Arroyo Palomas, mosses or lichens on rocks, trees or posts or aquatic macrophytes. Claps & Rossi (1997)

Venezuela:

• 10°20′N, 67°21′W; 2,000 m asl: Undefined locality, Region Central, Aragua, Entrada Costa Maya, mosses. Séméria (1993)

Record numbers: Brazil: 1, Uruguay: 1, Venezuela: 1; total: 3.

Remarks: The species originally described from South America (du Bois-Reymond Marcus 1944) and later found in Costa Rica ( Kaczmarek et al. 2014a). Specimens from Costa Rica indicate that this species requires a redescription and should probably be transferred to the genus Paramacrobiotus .

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