Minibiotus hufelandioides Murray 1910

• Main Author: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Eutardigrada; Parachela; Macrobiotidae; Minibiotus; Minibiotus hufelandioides; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6050223; https://zenodo.org/record/6050223

154. Minibiotus hufelandioides (Murray, 1910) [T] MacRobiotus hufelandioides Murray (?), MacRobiotus hufelandioides Murray (Murray 1913) MacRobiotus hufelandioides Murray, 1910 (Van Rompu et al. 1991a) Terra typica : Australia Kenya: • 00°01′S, 37°54′E: Undefined locality, British East Africa [Kenya], moss. Murray (1913) Republic of South Africa: • 23°50′S, 29°59′E; 1,450 m asl: North Transvaal [Limpopo Province], Woodbush [Woodbush Forest Reserve]. Murray (1913) Tanzania: • 03°17′S, 37°31′E; ca. 1,500 m asl: Kilimanjaro Region, Kilimanjaro National Park, Marangu gate, rain forest, below tree line, river, pH 5.5, water temperature 12°C, benthos sample. Van Rompu et al. (1991a) Uganda: • 01°22′N, 32°17′E: Undefined locality, moss. Murray (1913) Record numbers. Kenya: 1, Republic of South Africa: 1, Tanzania: 1, Uganda: 1; total: 4. Remarks. Known from several disjunct localities (McInnes 1994) suggesting a species complex. Murray (1913) described several differences between his African samples and those from the type locale (Australia) concluding that the African examples were, “possibly a distinct species”. These comments and more recently described African conspecifics suggests the presence of this taxon in Africa needs confirmation. : 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 53, 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.", "Murray, J. (1913) African Tardigrada. JouRnal of the Royal MicRoscopical Society, 2, 136 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2818.1913. tb 01014. x", "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"]}