Hypsibius dujardini Doy, 1840
Hypsibius dujardini Doy. ( Iharos 1963 )
H. dujardini ( Doy., 1840 )
Hypsibius ( Hypsibius ) dujardini ( Doyère, 1840 ) ( Ramazzotti 1964a )
H. dujardini ( Garitano-Zavala 1996 )
Hypsibius dujardini (Doyère) ( Claps & Rossi 1997 )
Berberis buxifolia
Nothofagus betuloides
Sphagnum
Ramazzotti (1964a)
Plagiochila punctata
Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Michalczyk, Łukasz
Mcinnes, Sandra J.
Zootaxa
2015
3923
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1
107
[193,675,1287,1312]
Heterotardigrada
Hypsibiidae
Hypsibius
Animalia
Parachela
40
41
Tardigrada
subSpecies
dujardini
sensu
Hypsibius dujardini Doy, 1840( Rahm 1931, 1932) Hypsibius dujardiniDoy. ( Iharos 1963) H. dujardini( Doy., 1840)( Claps & Rossi 1984, 1989) Hypsibius( Hypsibius) dujardini( Doyère, 1840) ( Ramazzotti 1964a) H. dujardini( Garitano-Zavala 1996) Hypsibius dujardini(Doyère) ( Claps & Rossi 1997) Terra typica: France(Europe) Argentina: • 26°47′S, 65°20′W; 750 masl: Tucumán Province, Horco Molle, moss soil. Claps & Rossi (1984) • 41°22′S, 71°30′W; 900 masl: Rio Negro Province, Ruta Nacional 258 near Guillelmo Lake, mosses on soil on the stream riverside. Rossi & Claps (1989) • 41°59′S, 71°34′W; 300 masl: Rio Negro Province, El Bolsón, Valley of Rio Azul, mosses on grassy soil on pasture. Iharos (1963) • 42°03′S, 71°33′W; 280 masl: Chubut Province, El Hoyo, above lagoon no. 1, western slope, mosses on soil with Berberis buxifolia. Iharos (1963) • 48°47′S, 69°11′W: Undefined locality in Santa Cruz Province, Arroyo Cerro de los Condores, mosses on tree. Rossi & Claps (1989) • 50°06′S, 73°20′W; 200 masl: Santa Cruz Province, Los Glaciares National Park, Bahia Onelli, mosses on tree, lichens on tree and lichens on tree ( Nothofagus betuloides) (3 samples). Rossi & Claps (1989) • 54°47′S, 68°13′W; 100 masl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Tierra Mayor ( IslaGrande de Tierra del Fuego), moss ( Sphagnumsp.) on rocks. Rossi & Claps (1989) • 54°51′S, 68°29′W; 0 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Tierra del Fuego National Park, Bahia Ensenada, mosses and lichens on rocks. Rossi & Claps (1989) Bolivia: • 16°11′S, 68°35′W; 3,680–4,000 masl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Huarina, moorland floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996) • 16°13′S, 68°13′W; 4,550–4,700 masl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Tuni, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996) • 16°18′S, 68°17′W; 4,300–4,400 masl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Wila Kunka, high Andean floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996) • 16°20′S, 68°23′W; 4,650–4,700masl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, La Cumbre, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996) Chile: • 33°26′S, 70°39′W; 600 masl: Region RM Metropolitana (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), Santiago de Chileand vicinity, entrance to Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, wet mosses and algae. Rahm (1931, 1932) • 37°43′S 73°02′W; 1,100 masl: Undefined locality in Region IX Araucania (Región de la Araucanía), Cordillera Nahuelbuta, moss. Ramazzotti (1964a) Ecuador: • 00°11′S, 78°36′W; 4,500 masl: Pichincha Province, Pichincha Volcano, soil sample. Pilato et al. (2004) • 00°22′S, 78°55′W; 1,100 masl: Cotopaxi Province, Otonga ( San Pedrode las Pampas) [Otonga Nature Reserve], liverwort ( Plagiochila punctata). Pilato et al. (2004) Uruguay: • 31°03′S, 57°38′W; 50 masl: Salto Department, Arroyo Palomas, mosses or lichens on rocks, trees or posts or aquatic macrophytes. Claps & Rossi (1997) • 34°10′S, 55°49′W; 50 masl: Florida Department, Arroyo San Juan, mosses or lichens on rocks, trees or posts or aquatic macrophytes. Claps & Rossi (1997) Record numbers: Argentina: 8, Bolivia: 4, Chile: 2, Ecuador: 2, Uruguay: 2; total: 18.
Remarks: Hypsibius dujardini sensulatois a species complex ( Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009a) with an apparent global distribution ( McInnes 1994a). The taxa within this complex can only be verified by details of claws morphology and other morphometric characters (e.g. Miller et al.2005, Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009a).