Echiniscus madonnae Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006

• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz, Mcinnes, Sandra J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Echiniscoidea; Echiniscidae; Echiniscus; Echiniscus madonnae; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687874; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FA02EFF8C7A2C4A85BB2D502DF795

29. Echiniscus madonnae Michalczyk & Kaczmarek, 2006 a [T] Echiniscus madonnae sp. nov. (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006) Terra typica : Chile (South America) Chile: • 09°30′S, 77°26′W; 4,000 m asl : Type Locality : Ancash Region, near Huaraz, mosses on rocks (4 samples). Michalczyk & Kaczmarek (2006a) Colombia: • 11°06′20.0′′N, 74°03′56.4′′W; 2,284 m asl : Magdalena Department, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, between La Tagua and Cuchilla de San Lorenzo, sub-Andean forest, lichen on tree (Pine). Lisi et al. (2014) Record numbers: Chile: 1, Colombia: 1; total: 2. Remarks: This bona fida species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and could easily be mistaken for other group members (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006a, 2007). See also remarks to E. bigranulatus above. This species currently known only from Chile and Colombia. Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 3923 (1) on page 17, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936