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Isohypsibius schaudinni Kaczmarek 2017, sensu lato

Description

112. Isohypsibius schaudinni (Richters, 1909) sensu lato [T]

H. (I.) schaudinni (Richters) 1901 (Marcus 1936)

Hypsibius schaudinni (Iharos 1969a)

Terra typica: Svalbard (Spitsbergen)

Gabon:

00°18′N, 09°30′E; 10–40 m asl: Estuaire Province, near Libreville, Owendo, moss on tree. Iharos (1969a)

Kenya:

01°05′S, 37°15′E; 1,400 m asl: Kiambu County, between Nairobi and Fort Hall, Thika Falls [Fourteen Falls] on Athi River, on spray wet leaves at the foot of the waterfall. Marcus (1935)

Zimbabwe:

20°06′S, 31°00′E; 1,050 m asl: Masvingo Province, Popoteke Gorge [Popoteki Gorge], along the river, under reeds, humid soil. Van Rompu et al. (1995)

Record numbers. Gabon: 1, Kenya: 1, Zimbabwe: 1; total: 3.

Remarks. The largely Holarctic distribution (McInnes 1994), requires taxonomic revision of type material to clarify the true distribution of this species.

Notes

Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hypsibiidae
Genus
Isohypsibius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Parachela
Phylum
Tardigrada
Scientific name authorship
Kaczmarek
Species
schaudinni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Isohypsibius schaudinni , 2017

References

  • Richters, F. (1909) Tardigraden-Studien. BeRicht ubeR die SenckenbeRgischen NatuRfoRschende Gesellschaft in FRankfuRt am Main, 40, 28 - 48.
  • Marcus, E. (1936) TaRdigRada. Das TieRReich, 66, 1 - 340.
  • Iharos, G. (1969 a) Tardigraden aus Mittelwestafrika. Opuscula Zoologica (Budapest), 9, 115 - 120.
  • Marcus, E. (1935) Arachnida. II. Tardigrada. Mission Scientifque de l'Omo, Tome II, Fasc. 14, 249 - 254.
  • Van Rompu, E. A., De Smet, W. H. & Coomans, A. (1995) Some terrestrial tardigrades from Zimbabwe. Biologisch JaaRbock Dodonea, 62, 48 - 55.
  • McInnes, S. J. (1994) Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial / freshwater tardigrades from current literature. JouRnal of NatuRal HistoRy, 28, 257 - 352. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770131