Echiniscus mediantus Marcus 1930

24. Echiniscus mediantus Marcus, 1930 [T] E. mediantus (Ramløv & Kristensen 1985) Terra typica: Scotland (Europe) Morocco: • 33°04′N, 05°00′W; 2,000 m asl [2,100 m asl]: Meknès-Tafilalet Region, near Aguelmane de Si-Ali (Col du Zad) [Aguelmame Sidi Ali lake], scattered basalt blocks (lava field)...

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Main Author: Kaczmarek, Łukasz
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Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6049933
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049933
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Summary:24. Echiniscus mediantus Marcus, 1930 [T] E. mediantus (Ramløv & Kristensen 1985) Terra typica: Scotland (Europe) Morocco: • 33°04′N, 05°00′W; 2,000 m asl [2,100 m asl]: Meknès-Tafilalet Region, near Aguelmane de Si-Ali (Col du Zad) [Aguelmame Sidi Ali lake], scattered basalt blocks (lava field) lying on the shores of the lake, mosses taken on basalt blocks. Ramløv & Kristensen (1985) Record numbers. Morocco: 1; total: 1. Remarks. With reports mainly from Europe, Greenland and Morocco (McInnes 1994), this species has a Palaearctic distribution. Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on page 13, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010400