Echiniscus phocae

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 19

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2305A96C-0A03-4524-93AA-90359893A4DD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687892
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scientific name	Echiniscus phocae
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39. Echiniscus phocae View in CoL du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944 [T]

E. (E) phocae sp. n. (du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944)

Terra typica: Brazil (South America)

Brazil:

• 22°43′S, 45°36′W; 1,900 m asl [1,850 m asl]: Type Locality: São Paulo State, Campos do Jordão, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

Record numbers: Brazil: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: This arctomys group species (see also remarks E. arctomys above) is known only from South America (type locality), a few European localities ( McInnes 1994a) and from USA ( Ramazzotti 1956 ); suggesting a probable species complex.