Echiniscus ranzii Ramazzotti 1964

• 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 ranzii; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5687898; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687898

42. Echiniscus ranzii Ramazzotti, 1964 a [T] Echiniscus (Echiniscus) ranzii spec nov. (Ramazzotti 1964 a) Terra typica: Chile (South America) Chile: • 22 ° 30 ′S, 67 ° 54 ′W; 4,600 m asl: Type Locality: Region II Antofagasta, Cerro Pajonal, near Bolivian border, lichen on rocks. Ramazzotti (1964 a) Record numbers: Chile: 1; total: 1. Remarks: The species belongs to a Neotropical and Antarctic bigranulatus group and could easily be mistaken for other members of the group (Michalczyk & Kaczmarek 2006 a, 2007). It is currently endemic to Chile. 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 20, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936