Echiniscus pusae Marcus, 1928

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, Zootaxa 4284 (1), pp. 1-74 : 14-15

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049945
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scientific name	Echiniscus pusae Marcus, 1928
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30. Echiniscus pusae Marcus, 1928 View in CoL [T]

Echiniscus sp. ( Murray 1907a)

Echiniscus pusae nom. nov. ( Marcus 1928)

Echiniscus pusae Marcus, 1928 View in CoL (Pilato et al. 2003)

Terra typica : Republic of South Africa (Africa)

Democratic Republic of Congo:

• 01°10′S, 28°28′E; 1,000 m asl: North Kivu Province, outskirts of Mohanga, liverwort ( Plagiochila porelloides). Pilato et al. (2003) GoogleMaps

Republic of South Africa:

• 29°44′S, 22°44′E: Type Locality: Undefined locality, Cape Colony [Cape Province]. ( Murray 1907a), Marcus (1928) Record numbers. Democratic Republic of Congo: 1, Republic of South Africa: 1; total: 2. Remarks. Only reported from Africa and Indonesia (Lombok) ( McInnes 1994); a possible tropical/ subtropical distribution.