Hypsibius arcticus Kaczmarek 2017, sensu lato ...

• Main Author: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; Parachela; Hypsibiidae; Hypsibius; Hypsibius arcticus; Acutuncus antarcticus; Antarc*; antarcticus; Franz Josef Land; Macrobiotus arcticus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049995; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6049995

52. Hypsibius arcticus (Murray, 1907c) sensu lato [T] M. arcticus ? Murray (Murray 1907a) Macrobiotus arcticus Murray (Murray 1913) Terra typica: Franz Josef Land (Russia) Kenya: • 01°15′S, 36°41′E; 2,000 m asl: Kiambu County, Kikuyu, moss. Murray (1913) Republic of South Africa: • 25°45′S, 28°11′E; 1,300 m asl: Gauteng Province, Pretoria, moss. Murray (1913) • 29°44′S, 22°44′E: Undefined locality, Cape Colony [Cape Province]. Murray (1907a) Uganda: • 01°22′N, 32°17′E: Undefined locality. Murray (1913) Record numbers. Kenya: 1. Republic of South Africa: 2, Uganda: 1; total: 4. Remarks. Described as ‘ arcticus ’ by Murray (1907a; 1913) in both references there is a confusion between the species described as ‘ arcticus ’ and ‘ antarcticus ’. Murray (1907a) reported a single egg, similar to Macrobiotus hastatus that was smaller but with fewer and thicker rods (i.e. comparing with Acutuncus antarcticus egg description) from the Cape Colony. Later Murray (1913) indicated a “supposed egg of this species…” from ... : Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400 ...