Parhexapodibius castrii

• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz, Mcinnes, Sandra J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Parachela; Calohypsibiidae; Parhexapodibius; Parhexapodibius castrii; Argentina; Cueva; Esperanza; Magallanes; Paine; Antártica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5688116; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688116

151. Parhexapodibius castrii (Ramazzotti, 1964 a) [T] Hexapodibius castrii (Maucci 1988) Hypsibius (Calohypsibius) castrii spec. nov. (Ramazzotti 1964 a) Terra typica: Chile (South America) Argentina: • 41 ° 51 ′S, 71 ° 25 ′W; 650 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Los Repollos stream, mosses from water. Rossi & Claps (1991) Chile • 22 ° 28 ′S, 68 °08′W; 4,150 m asl: Type Locality: Region II Antofagasta, Cerro Pajonal, near Bolivian border, at the entrance of a burrow of rodent (Lagidium viscacia) mosses on soil. Ramazzotti (1964 a) • 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) • 51 ° 34 ′S, 72 ° 36 ′W; 200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Ultima Esperanza, near Cueva del Milodón, mosses on rocks, in sunlight. Maucci (1988) Record numbers: Argentina: 1, Chile: 3; total: 4. Remarks: This apparently Neotropical species (McInnes 1994 a, Kaczmarek et al. 2014 a) has a few doubtful USA records (Meyer 1967). 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 pages 60-61, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936