Echiniscus crassispinosus fasciatus Marcus, 1928

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 15

19. Echiniscus crassispinosus fasciatus Marcus, 1928 sensu lato [T]

Echiniscus (Echiniscus) crassispinosus fasciatus Marcus, 1913 (de Barros 1942a) E. (E.) crassispinosus J. Murray , forma fasciata Marcus, 1928 (du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944) Terra typica: Republic of South Africa (Africa)

Brazil:

• 22°44′S, 45°35′W; 1,650 m asl: São Paulo State, Campos do Jordão, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

• 23°29′S, 46°21′W; 750 m asl: São Paulo State, Itaquaquecetuba, mosses. de Barros (1942a)

• 25°26′S, 49°16′W; 900 m asl: Paraná State, Curitiba, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

Record numbers: Brazil: 3; total: 3.

Remarks: As these two Brazilian records are the only reports of this species outside Africa ( McInnes 1994a) indicate and taking into consideration South American specimens descriptions differ from the original subspecies description ( Marcus 1928), they should be probably assigned to a new species (for more comments see Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983).