Pilatobius bullatum Murray 1905

• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz, Mcinnes, Sandra J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Pottiales; Calymperaceae; Pilatobius; Pilatobius bullatum; Argentina; Chubut; Magallanes; Paine; Antártica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5688038; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688038

112. Pilatobius bullatum Murray, 1905 a sensu lato [T] Hypsibius bullatus J. Murr (Iharos 1963) H. bullatus Murr. (Iharos 1969) H. (D.) bullatus (Mihelčič 1972) Diphascon bullatum Murray, 1905 (Maucci 1988) Terra typica: Scotland (Europe) Argentina: • 41 ° 59 ′S, 71 ° 31 ′W; 360 m asl: Rio Negro Province, El Bolsón, foot of Piltriquitron Mt., mosses under saxicolous plants on the extremely arid cliffs of promontory. Iharos (1963) • 42 ° 13 ′S, 71 ° 42 ′W; 220 m asl: Chubut Province, El Turbio, Puelo Lake, mosses on wet soil in primeval Nothofagus dombeyi - Libocedrus chilensis forest near the lake. Iharos (1963) • Undefined localities cited according Mihelčič (1967), shaded and wet mosses and lichens on soil and thin and thick wet layer (3 samples). Mihelčič (1972) Chile: • 33 °04′S, 71 °00′W; 1,000 m asl: Region RM Metropolitana (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), Tiltil, Cuesta La Dormida, leaf litter on dry forest. Iharos (1969) • 50 ° 59 ′S, 73 °00′W; 1,200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Torres del Paine National Park, mosses on trees and rocks, nearly all in half sunlight. Maucci (1988) Record numbers: Argentina: 3, Chile: 2; total: 5. Remarks: A widely distributed species (McInnes 1994 a), possibly representing a species complex requiring a reexamination. 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 48, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936