Macrobiotus islandicus Richters 1904

• Main Authors: Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz, Mcinnes, Sandra J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Tardigrada; Heterotardigrada; Parachela; Macrobiotidae; Macrobiotus; Macrobiotus islandicus; Iceland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5688148; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688148

166. Macrobiotus islandicus Richters, 1904 a sensu lato [T] Macrobiotus islandicus Richters, 1903 (Jerez & Narváez 2001) Terra typica: Iceland (Europe) Colombia: • 07°07′N, 73 °02′W; 1,795 m asl: Santander Department, El Diviso Natural Reserve, pine forest (Pinus patula). Jerez & Narváez (2001) Record numbers: Colombia: 1; total: 1. Remarks: This nominal species of the M. islandicus group has a Holarctic distribution (McInnes 1994 a). Importantly, a similar subspecies, Macrobiotus islandicus nicaraguensis, is known from Central America (Kaczmarek et al. 2014 a), thus it is very likely that this single Colombian record belongs to M. i. nicaraguensis or to another species within the islandicus group. 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 71, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936