Parhexapodibius castrii

• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz, Mcinnes, Sandra J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Parachela; Calohypsibiidae; Parhexapodibius; Parhexapodibius castrii; Antártica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688116; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FA02EFFA77A004A85BF4355B2F143

151. Parhexapodibius castrii (Ramazzotti, 1964a) [T] Hexapodibius castrii (Maucci 1988) Hypsibius ( Calohypsibius ) castrii spec. nov. (Ramazzotti 1964a) 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 (1964a) • 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 1994a, Kaczmarek et al. 2014a) 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