Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis Nickel, Miller & Marley 2001

• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz, Mcinnes, Sandra J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Echiniscoidea; Echiniscidae; Echiniscus; Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5687886; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687886

36. Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis Nickel, Miller & Marley, 2001 [T] Echiniscus ollantaytamboensis nov. sp. (Nickel et al. 2001) Terra typica: Peru (South America) Peru: • 13 °08′ 24 ′′S, 72 ° 10 ′ 12 ′′W; 2,300 m asl [13 ° 15 ′S, 72 ° 16 ′W; 2,850 m asl]: Type Locality: Cusco Region, Ollantaytambo, lichen on stonewall. Nickel et al. (2001) • 13 ° 25 ′S, 71 ° 51 ′W, 3,000 m asl: Cusco Region, Pisac near Cusco, mixed mosses and lichens on rock. Kaczmarek et al. (2014 b) • 15 ° 50 ′S, 70 °01′W; 2,600 m asl [3,850 m asl]: Puno Region, Puno, lichen. Michalczyk & Kaczmarek (2006 a) Record numbers: Peru: 3; total: 3. Remarks: The species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and can easily be mistaken for other members of the group (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006 a, 2007). It is currently endemic to Peru. See also remarks to E. bigranulatus above. 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 19, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936