Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters 1908

• Main Authors: Roszkowska, Milena, Stec, Daniel, Ciobanu, Daniel Adrian, Kaczmarek, Łukasz
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Echiniscoidea; Echiniscidae; Echiniscus; Echiniscus bigranulatus; Antarctic; New Zealand; Argentina; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5615661; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5615661

Echiniscus bigranulatus Richters, 1908 Localities and number of specimens. II (15), III (10), V (17), VI (8), XVII (2), XX (28) Remarks. The species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and can be easily mistaken with other members of the group (e.g. Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006, 2007; McInnes 2009). It is widely distributed in South and Central America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Paraguay) (Kaczmarek et al. 2014, 2015). It was also reported in Europe, Africa, Indonesia and New Zealand (McInnes 1994), however non-Neotropical-Antarctic reports are probably misidentifications. Thus, all the records prior to 2006 require re-examination to confirm species identification (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006). Published as part of Roszkowska, Milena, Stec, Daniel, Ciobanu, Daniel Adrian & Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2016, Tardigrades from Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina, South America) with descriptions of two new Macrobiotidae species, pp. 243-260 in Zootaxa 4105 (3) on page 246, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4105.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/266164