Macrobiotus occidentalis Kaczmarek 2017, sensu lato

• Main Author: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; Parachela; Macrobiotidae; Macrobiotus; Macrobiotus occidentalis; Antarctic; Canada; British Columbia; Carmona; Orta; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6050178; https://zenodo.org/record/6050178

132. Macrobiotus occidentalis Murray, 1910 sensu lato [T] MacRobiotus occidentalis J. Murray 1910, MacRobiotus occidentalis J. Murray 1910 betschâRensis nov. var. (Rahm 1936) MacRobiotus occidentalis J. Murray 1910 (da Cunha & do Nascimento 1964) Terra typica : British Columbia (Canada, North America) Angola: • 07°47′S, 15°01′E; 650 m asl: Uíge Province, near Carmona [Uíge], Estate at Pumba Loge, lichens. da Cunha & do Nascimento (1964) • 15°01′S, 13°22′E; 1,950 m asl: Huíla Province, Sá da Bandeira [Lubango], Boca da Humpata, lichens. da Cunha & do Nascimento (1964) Israel and Palestinian National Authority: • 31°47′N, 35°15′E; 800 m asl : Judean Mountains, Jerusalem, Olives Mt., Pater Noster church, Russians tower, wall of church, moss ( SyntRichium sp.) or lichen ( XanthoRia paRietina ). Rahm (1936) • 31°46′N, 35°13′E; 800 m asl : Undefined locality, “Betschar bei Kilometer 22”, moss ( SyntRichium sp.) or lichen ( XanthoRia paRietina ). Rahm (1936) Tanzania: • 03°12′S, 37°31′E; ca. 2,500 m asl: Kilimanjaro Region, Kilimanjaro National Park, Maranda [Mandara] trail, tree line, benthos sample from river. Van Rompu et al. (1991a) Record numbers. Angola: 2, Israel and Palestinian National Authority: 2, Tanzania: 1; total: 5. Remarks. Macrobiotus occidentalis sensu lato is largely Holarctic (McInnes 1994), with a few southern hemisphere reports. The possibility of a species complex would indicate these African specimens should be reexamined. : 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 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400 : {"references": ["Murray, J. (1910) Tardigrada. British Antarctic Expedition 1907 - 1909. RepoRts on the Scientific Investigations, 1 (Biology, Part V), 83 - 187.", "Rahm, G. (1936) Tardigraden aus Palastina. ZoologischeR AnzeigeR, 115, 65 - 76.", "Da Cunha, A. X. da & Nascimento Ribeiro, F. (1964) Tardigrados de Angola. GaRcia de ORta, Lisboa, 12, 397 - 406.", "Van Rompu, E. A., De Smet, W. H. & Bafort, J. M. (1991 a) Some freshwater tardigrades from the Kilimanjaro. Naturwetenschappelijk Tijdschrift, 73, 55 - 62.", "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"]}